Patent ID: 8365185

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing processing within a computing environment, said method comprising: programmatically providing, without user intervention, a plurality of categories of processes, said plurality of categories of processes having a plurality of priorities associated therewith, and wherein the plurality of categories of processes comprises one or more of a category of critical processes, a category of monitoring processes, a category of preparatory processes, and a category of administrative processes, and wherein each category of the plurality of categories has a serialization protocol associated therewith to manage processing among the plurality of categories, and wherein the serialization protocol for one category is different from the serialization protocol of another category; and programmatically preventing execution, by a processor, of a process of one category of processes and allowing execution of a process of another category of processes, in response to detecting a change in configuration of an Information Technology (IT) environment, wherein the change in configuration comprises at least one of adding one or more resources to the IT environment to be used by a business application of the IT environment that employs a plurality of types of resources, removing one or more resources from the IT environment that are used by a business application that employs a plurality of types of resources, or altering a management policy of the IT environment, and wherein the preventing execution comprises blocking execution of the process or terminating execution of the process.