Patent Document ID: 9530110
Application ID: 11799111
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at an autonomic management system manager (AMSM), monitoring information of a first autonomic management system (AMS), the first AMS managing at least one distributed computing system, the at least one distributed computing system comprising a plurality of application nodes interconnected via a communications network, the AMS providing autonomic control of the application nodes; receiving, at the AMSM, monitoring information of the at least one distributed computing system; determining, by the AMSM, predicted behavior of the first AMS when managing the at least one distributed computing system based on the monitoring information of the at least one distributed computing system and the monitoring information of the first AMS, the predicted behavior comprising the first AMS malfunctioning due to an insufficiency of a resource used by the first AMS; preventing the predicted behavior of the first AMS by autonomically modifying, with the AMSM, a configuration of the first AMS, the modified configuration of the first AMS modifying the management of the at least one distributed computing system; determining a root cause of an apparent component failure detected by the first AMS, wherein determining the root cause comprises determining whether the apparent component failure is an erroneous side-effect of the configuration of the first AMS.