System, Method and Program Product for Providing Policy Hierarchy in an Enterprise Data Processing System

• US 20070282652A1
• Filed: 06/05/2006
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Childress, Rhonda L, Kumhyr, David B., Spisak, Michael J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,785,477 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/505 Clust
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations

Abstract

A system, method and program product for providing a policy hierarchy usable in an enterprise system having at least one computer cluster. A request is sent to a jurisdictional authority for requesting that a resource be added to the computer cluster of the enterprise system. Following predetermined rules, the jurisdictional authority determines if the addition of said requested resource to said computer cluster is to be allowed. If the addition is determined to be allowed by the jurisdictional authority, the requested resource is added to the computer cluster by a computer cluster manager.

Claims

1. In an enterprise system having at least one computer cluster, a method for providing policy hierarchy comprising:

sending a request to a jurisdictional authority requesting that a resource be added to the computer cluster;

following predetermined rules by said jurisdictional authority for the determining of the addition of said requested resource to said computer cluster; and

adding said requested resource to said computer cluster as determined by said jurisdictional authority.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said enterprise system includes more than one computer cluster, and said method further comprises arbitrating between computer clusters with said jurisdictional authority, when requests are received from more than one computer cluster for the addition of the same resource.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said jurisdictional authority includes a first set of rules for adding resources related to the geography jurisdiction of said computer cluster, and a second set of rules related to the subject matter jurisdiction of said computer cluster.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein said request for an additional resource is made via a policy engine connected to said computer cluster, said policy engine for determining if an additional resource is needed by its connected computer cluster.

5. The method according to claim 4 further comprises monitoring with said policy engine, a parameter in said computer cluster to determine if the parameter indicates an approaching breech of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) governing the operation of said computer cluster.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein said parameter is a trigger threshold measured in said computer cluster.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein said trigger threshold is a high volume of web site transactions in said computer cluster.

8. In an enterprise system having at least one computer cluster, an apparatus for providing policy hierarchy comprising:

a jurisdictional authority for determining when a resource is to be added to said computer cluster;

a computer cluster manager sending a request to said jurisdictional authority requesting that a resource be added to the computer cluster;

said Jurisdictional authority following predetermined rules for the determining of the addition of said requested resource to said computer cluster; and

said computer cluster manager adding said requested resource to said computer cluster as determined by said jurisdictional authority.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising wherein more than one computer cluster in said enterprise system, and jurisdictional authority further comprises rules for arbitrating between computer clusters, when requests are received from more than one computer cluster for the addition of the same resource.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein said jurisdictional authority includes a first set of rules for adding resources related to the geography jurisdiction of said computer cluster, and a second set of rules related to the subject matter jurisdiction of said computer cluster.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising a policy engine connected to said computer cluster, said policy engine for determining if an additional resource is needed by its connected computer cluster and making a request for said additional resource to said computer cluster manager.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11 wherein said policy engine monitors a parameter in said computer cluster to determine if the parameter indicates an approaching breech of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) governing the operation of said computer cluster.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said parameter is a trigger threshold measured in said computer cluster.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 wherein said trigger threshold is a high volume of web site transactions in said computer cluster.

15. A program product usable in an enterprise system having at least one computer cluster, said computer program comprising;

a computer readable medium having recorded thereon computer readable program code performing the a method for providing policy hierarchy comprising;

sending a request to a jurisdictional authority requesting that a resource be added to the computer cluster;

following predetermined rules by said Jurisdictional authority for the determining of the addition of said requested resource to said computer cluster; and

adding said requested resource to said computer cluster as determined by said jurisdictional authority.

16. The program product according to claim 15 wherein said enterprise system includes more than one computer cluster, and said method further comprises arbitrating between computer clusters with said jurisdictional authority, when requests are received from more than one computer cluster for the addition of the same resource.

17. The program product according to claim 15 wherein said method further comprises a first set of rules followed by said jurisdictional authority related to the geography jurisdiction of said computer cluster, and a second set of rules followed by said jurisdictional authority related to the subject matter jurisdiction of said computer cluster.

18. The program product according to claim 15 wherein said request for an additional resource is made via a policy engine connected to said computer cluster, said policy engine for determining if an additional resource is needed by its connected computer cluster.

19. The program product according to claim 18 wherein said method further comprises monitoring by said policy engine, a parameter in said computer cluster to determine if the parameter indicates an approaching breech of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) governing the operation of said computer cluster.

20. The program product according to claim 19 wherein said parameter is a trigger threshold measured in said computer cluster.

21. The program product according to claim 20 wherein said trigger threshold is a high volume of web site transactions in said computer cluster.