Patent ID: 7454752

Claim:
A method for generating policy rules which is adapted to automatically execute administration during execution of a plurality of jobs in an information processing system by using the policy rules describing actions adoptable when an event such as a fault occurs, comprising: storing a job execution schedule containing complete schedule times of said plurality of jobs; and storing a job execution condition describing an execution limit condition and a method of evaluating an amount of loss incurred when said execution limit condition is not met, in respect of each of said plurality of jobs; wherein a rule generation tool, under control by a processor of a policy rule generator, executes: evaluating the amount of loss by making reference to said job execution schedule and said job execution condition when a special action is taken in the event that a special event occurs in a special one of said jobs at a special time; and executing the evaluating the amount of loss in respect of all of plural actions prepared for said special job and said special event at said special time and determining an action which minimizes the evaluated loss amount thereby to generate a policy rule; wherein the storing of the job execution condition includes describing a function as the method of evaluating the amount of loss incurred when said limit condition is not met, and the evaluating the amount of loss includes executing said function; and wherein said function is a function using a delay time of job completion as an argument and in executing said function, the delay time of job completion is calculated.