Patent ID: 7725943

Claim:
An administration system deployed within a server system having a server computer, the administration system comprising: a computing system embedded within the server system, and free from communication with an external device, for providing embedded autonomic control over the server system, including embedded autonomic control of an operating system and application programs running on the server computer in the server system; the computing system having an autonomic controller for performing autonomic computing based administration of the server system, including the autonomic computing based administration of the operating system and the application programs, the autonomic computing based administration of the server system, including monitoring, analyzing and managing operation of the server system, all of which being performed by communicating with the server system only and excluding any communication with an external device; wherein the autonomic controller comprises: a determining unit for determining a policy violation in the server system, a policy including a set of one or more rules that can be modified in real-time; a management unit for taking over host management functions from the server system in response to the policy violation; and an execution unit for executing an action to correct the operation of the server system in response to the policy violation.