Patent ID: 8285836

Claim:
A system comprising: a monitoring target system including a plurality of resources, and providing a service using the resources; a policy creation support system, executed at least in part by a hardware processor, controlling the monitoring target system based on a service level agreement (SLA) including a range of a service metric for the service, wherein for assigned resources which will be used to provide the service, the policy creation support system stores an autonomic control policy including: (1) a threshold metric of a certain resource, and (2) an action executed if the threshold metric is satisfied, wherein for said assigned resources which will be used to provide the service, the autonomic control policy is created by the policy creation support system according to: (A) generating a workload of the service; (B) obtaining a metric of currently used resources at a time corresponding to a violation of the range in the autonomic control policy about the service metric; (C) calculating the threshold metric of the autonomic control policy, based on the obtained metric, wherein the action in the autonomic control policy is to use an additional resource for providing the service; and wherein obtained metrics used in the calculating are designated by a template stored in the policy creation support system.