SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PROVISIONING IN A MIXED ENVIRONMENT OF LOCALES

• US 20080209430A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Akamatsu, Takeshi, Gotoh, Yasuhisa
• Application Number:
  US12/038,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20080209430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5066 Algorithms for mapping a plurality of inter-dependent sub-tasks onto a plurality of physical CPUs mappping at compile time, see G06F8/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work

Abstract

A system, a computer program product, and a method capable of dynamically and flexibly support a plurality of locales upon provisioning are provided. A management server connected via a network to a plurality of processing resources each set with a locale includes a storage unit to store processing, a locale, and a set of instructions corresponding to the processing and the locale, and a selection unit to select a set of instructions associated with required processing and a required locale by referring to the storage unit, and it further includes a determination unit to dynamically determine the required processing and the processing resource by way of provisioning, and the storage unit stores the plurality of processing resources and each locale.

Claims

1. A management server connected via a network to a plurality of processing resources each set with a locale, comprising:

storage means for storing a processing, a locale, and an instruction corresponding to the processing and the locale; and

selection means for selecting an instruction associated with required processing and a required locale by referring to the storage means.

2. The management server according to claim 1, further comprising:

determination means for dynamically determining the required processing and the processing resource by way of provisioning, wherein

the storage means stores the plurality of processing resources and each locale.

3. The management server according to claim 2, wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and status of the plurality of processing resources.

4. The management server according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmission means for transmitting the selected instruction to a processing resource corresponding to the required locale.

5. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the instruction does not include conditional branching by locales.

6. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of locales set respectively for the plurality of processing resources are different from each other.

7. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the locale set for the management server is different from the locale set for the processing resource.

8. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the storage means stores, for single processing, a plurality of locales and a plurality of instructions corresponding respectively to the locales.

9. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the locales stored in the storage means are hierarchically organized, and the storage means stores a single upper-level locale, a plurality of lower-level locales corresponding to the upper-level locale, and a plurality of instructions corresponding respectively to the plurality of lower-level locales.

10. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the locale and the instruction stored in the storage means can be edited independently from each other.

11. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the locale and the instruction stored in the storage means can be added independently from each other.

12. A computer program product for causing a computer to function as a management server connected via a network to a plurality of processing resources each set with a locale, the computer program product, when executed, implementing in the computer:

a storage function to store processing, a locale, and an instruction corresponding to the processing and the locale; and

a selection function to select instruction associated with required processing and a required locale.

13. A method adapted to a system having a management server and a plurality of processing resources connected via a network, the plurality of processing resources being each set with a locale, the management server storing processing, a locale, and an instruction corresponding to the processing and the locale, the method comprising the step of:

selecting an instruction associated with required processing and a required locale.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the management server stores the plurality of processing resources and each locale, the method further comprising the step of:

prior to the selecting step, the management server dynamically determining the required processing and the processing resource by way of provisioning.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of:

the management server transmitting the selected instruction to the processing resource corresponding to the required locale.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising the step of:

the processing resource executing the transmitted instruction.

17. A method adapted to a system having a management server and a plurality of processing resources connected via a network, the plurality of processing resources being each set with a locale, the method comprising the step of:

converting processing and a first instruction corresponding to the processing, stored in the management server, into the processing, locales, and a plurality of second instructions associated with the processing and with the respective locales.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the first instruction depends on the locale set for the management server, and the second instruction depends on the locale set for the processing resource.