Patent ID: 7032022

Claim:
A system for managing policy services in an organization, the organization including a first network having a first set of resources and a second network remote from the first network having a second set of resources, the system comprising: a first edge device associated with the first network; a second edge device associated with the second network; and a policy server in communication with the first and second edge devices, wherein the policy server includes: a log collecting and archiving module for periodically receiving health and status information from each of the edge devices wherein the health and status information includes resource usage statistics of each of the respective edge devices; an archive database coupled to the log collecting and archiving module for storing the health and status information; a reports module coupled to the archive database for creating reports based on the health and status information; and means for establishing a condition upon which each of the edge devices transfers its health and status information to the log collecting and archiving module: wherein the first and second edge devices each collects health and status information associated with its set of resources, formats the health and status information according to a predetermined log format, and transmits the formatted health and status information to the policy server, and wherein the policy server correlates the formatted health and status information from the first and second edge devices and provides a centralized view of the health and status of the first and second edge devices from a single location.