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Business Aware Policy Based Management

Overview This paper introduces a Business Aware Framework for the Management of policy enabled IT Systems and its application to Utility Computing Environments. The framework couples two main subsystems on top of an IETF-like policy-based resource control layer. They are MBO (Management by Business Objectives) where the decision ability supported by analysis of business objectives resides, and GSLA (Generalized SLA), an advanced framework for SLA driven management that lends itself quite naturally to the derivation of IT management policies from the SLAs that the enterprise has contracted. The paper discusses the advantages and the limitations of the state-of-art policy-based approach to systems management, mainly the lack of business and service level context to drive policy-related decisions at system run-time.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2006	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Service Level Management, SLA

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