PERFORMING A CHANGE PROCESS BASED ON A POLICY
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, by a system having a processor, a request to change a component in an infrastructure;
in response to the request, performing, by the system, a change process having plural phases, wherein the change process comprises;
determining, based on accessing at least one policy, whether or not transitions among the plural phases are allowed, wherein the determining comprises triggering a policy rule engine to apply the at least one policy for a particular transition between successive ones of the plural phases; and
invoking exception handling by the policy rule engine in response to determining that violation of the at least one policy would result from the particular transition.
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Abstract
A request to change a component of an infrastructure is received (102). In response to the request a change process having plural phases is performed (104). A transition between plural phases is allowed based on at least one policy.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a system having a processor, a request to change a component in an infrastructure; in response to the request, performing, by the system, a change process having plural phases, wherein the change process comprises; determining, based on accessing at least one policy, whether or not transitions among the plural phases are allowed, wherein the determining comprises triggering a policy rule engine to apply the at least one policy for a particular transition between successive ones of the plural phases; and invoking exception handling by the policy rule engine in response to determining that violation of the at least one policy would result from the particular transition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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12. A system comprising:
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at least one processor; and a management subsystem having at least one module executable on the at least one processor to; receive a change request for changing a component of an infrastructure; perform a change process in response to the change request, the change process having plural phases; decide to transition between successive ones of the plural phases based on whether or not a respective transition between successive ones of the plural phases would violate at least one policy, as determined by a policy rule engine; allow a given transition between successive ones of the plural phases if the at least one policy would not be violated; and invoke exception handling for the given transition if the at least one policy would be violated - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. An article comprising at least one machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a system having a processor to perform a method comprising;
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receiving, by a system having a processor, a request to change a component in an infrastructure; in response to the request, performing, by the system, a change process having plural phases, wherein the change process comprises; determining, based on accessing at least one policy, whether or not transitions among the plural phases are allowed, wherein the determining comprises triggering a policy rule engine to apply the at least one policy for a particular transition between successive ones of the plural phases; and invoking (108) exception handling by the policy rule engine in response to determining that violation, of the at least one policy would result from the particular transition - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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