Configuration management for group policies

• US 20030115179A1
• Filed: 11/01/2002
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NetIQ Corporation (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NetIQ Corporation (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Radharishnan, Dilip, Prabakaran, Senthil, Kazachkov, Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US10/286,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20030115179A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/70 Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security

Abstract

A method of analyzing group policies in an information management system is provided. The method includes monitoring information obtained for a policy repository console, logging the monitored information into a policy editor, and analyzing the monitored information via a repository administration.

Claims

1. A method of analyzing group policies in an information management system where said method comprises:

(a) monitoring information obtained for a policy repository console;

(b) logging said monitored information into a policy editor; and

(c) analyzing said monitored information via a repository administration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said information management system comprises a plurality of individual processing engines coupled together by said distributed interconnect.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said information management system comprises a content delivery system.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said plurality of processing engines comprise a system management engine;

and wherein said method comprises using said system management engine to perform complexity, risk, auditing and internal control, and change.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said repository administration is implemented on a device external to said information management system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said method further comprises dynamically managing system resources based on the results of said analyzing.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said method further comprises dynamically managing system resources displayed on a graphical user interface.

8. A method comprising:

a network, executing a policy repository process;

providing a policy editor process; and

executing a repository administrative process.

9. The method of claim 8 in which the policy repository process comprises:

maintaining a set of user functionalities, the set including generic policy object operations.

10. The method of claim 9 in which the generic policy object operations comprise:

generating a policy object;

importing the policy object;

editing the policy object;

generating directory service links, and

modifying directory service links.

11. The method of claim 8 in which the policy object process comprises a set of user tools, the user tools including edit policy object functions and check-out policy functions.

12. The method of claim 8 in which the policy editor process comprises:

displaying object settings in a graphical user interface.

13. The method of claim 8 in which the repository administration process comprises:

restricting tasks and operations for an end user within a security repository;

configuring the security repository and security permission for users and groups to the security repository.

14. A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium, for maintaining group policies in an information management system, comprising instructions to cause a programmable processor to:

execute a policy repository process;

provide a policy editor process; and

execute a repository administration process.