Publication number: 20080059214
Abstract: In accordance with certain aspects of the model-based policy application, each of a plurality of policies is associated with appropriate parts of a model of a heterogeneous system. A deployment agent is invoked to apply each of the plurality of policies to components associated with the parts of the model. An identification of a change to one of the plurality of policies is received, and the deployment agent is also invoked to apply the changed policy to selected ones of the components associated with the parts of the model.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 12, 2007
Publication date:
March 6, 2008
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation
Inventors:
Anders Vinberg, Bruce Copeland, Robert Fries, Kevin Grealish, Jonathan Hardwick, Michael Healy, Galen Hunt, Aamer Hydrie, David James, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Edwin Lassettre, Raymond McCollum, Rob Mensching, Mazhar Mohammed, Rajagopalan Narayanan, Geoffrey Outhred, Zhengkai Pan, Efstathios Papaefstathiou, John Parchem, Vij Rajarajan, Ashvikumar Sanghvi, Bassam Tabbara, Rene Vega, Vitaly Voloshin, Robert Welland, John Wilson, Eric Winner, Jeffrey Woolsey
Publication number: 20070192453
Abstract: A method, system, and architecture for managing computer systems is provided. A management system employs management objects (MOs) to provide administrators the ability to intuitively express the administrative intent in an information technology (IT) environment, and to act out the administrative intent based on the information gathered by the management system. Managed elements of an IT environment, such as, by way of example, hardware components, software applications, software updates, software distribution policies, configurations, settings, etc., may be expressed as MOs. Actions, such as, by way of example, detect, install/apply, remove, remediate, enumerate, etc., may be associated with the MOs. The management system manages the computer systems by deploying the appropriate MOs and their associated actions onto the computer systems, and performing the actions on the computer systems.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 16, 2006
Publication date:
August 16, 2007
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation
Inventors:
Bruce Copeland, David James, Donald Song, Dustin Ingalls, Jeffrey Sutherland, Jeffry Phillips, Joseph Calabig, Khuzaima Iqbal, Michael Healy, Rajagopalan Narayanan, Zhengkai Pan