SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TRIGGER AND EXECUTION OF MANAGEMENT POLICIES

• US 20150019699A1
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: POSTAL, Antonio Henrique Barbosa
• Granted Patent: US 9,584,368 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management

Abstract

A remote management system includes a server and multiple devices operating in accordance with management policies based on conditions and actions, and a method for triggering and controlling the execution of these management policies. The method and system extend MgmtPolicyMO in order to make it more flexible and efficient, focusing more specifically on the functionality of the actions of management policy.

Claims

1. Method to trigger and control the execution of management policies wherein controlling the execution of simple actions that form a compound action, so that the execution of a particular simple action may depend on the result of executing a previous single action within the same compound action, through the use of short-circuit operators applied to the results of simple actions, whether in the context of a management policy or its representation as MgmtPolicyMO in the management Tree “

management Tree”

.

2. Method to trigger and control the execution of management policies wherein actions are triggered based on transitions of the results of compound conditions, avoiding repetitive execution of the same actions, and flooding of DM Server by frequent notifications.

3. Method as in claim 2, wherein triggering the execution of policies in transitions, specializing compound action of two compound actions, IF action and ELSE action, for positive transitions to negative transitions of the result of the condition, respectively.

4. Method as in claim 3, wherein the positive transition means a change in the results of fault condition (NOK) to the successful (OK), and negative transition means the opposite.

5. Method to trigger and control the execution of management policies wherein a Management Policy is interconnected to other management policy, enabling a certain action of a policy to be able to enable or disable the evaluation and implementation of other Management policy.

6. Method as in claim 5, wherein a management policy deactivates itself under specific conditions.

7. Method as in claim 5, wherein another Management Policy or DM Server is able to reactivate said policy later.

8. A remote management system comprising a server and multiple devices operating in accordance with management policies based on conditions and actions, wherein a first management policy is interconnected to a second management policy, enabling a certain action of the first management policy to enable or disable the evaluation and implementation of the second management policy.