Patent ID: 8185913

Claim:
An unified system comprising: a host system platform that includes, a1) a host operating system (OS); a2) a host processor that operates to execute host system applications within the host OS; and a manageability platform dedicated to performing manageability operations to manage the host system platform and includes, b1) a manageability OS; b2) a manageability processor to execute the manageability operations within the manageability OS, wherein the manageability processor is a general-purpose processor; b3) an automation engine integrated in the manageability platform and executed by the manageability processor to perform the manageability operations to manage the host system platform, wherein the automation engine includes a policy stack to provide obligation policies that are pre-defined to perform the manageability operations, wherein the obligation policies include reactive, conditional rules, and a model stack to model information monitored by one or more components of the host system platform into data structures, wherein the information model provides the policy stack with event notification for policy implementation; and b4) a plurality of interfaces that provide the manageability processor with access to the host system platform to support the performance of the manageability operations.