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Policy Management for Autonomic Computing: Solving a business problem using PMAC

How to create an autonomic policy to manage a business scenario

Eric Kirchstein (ekirchst@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
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Eric Kirchstein is a Software Engineer for IBM working with autonomic computing technologies, where he specializes in XML programming technology and methodology. Before working with autonomic computing technologies, Eric worked on Tivoli Service Level Advisor as a Java programmer and DB2 focal point. He has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, is an IBM Certified Specialist in DB2 UDB V6.1/V7.1, and a Level 1 plateau inventor.

Summary:  Businesses of all types have policies that dictate the behavior of their IT resources, human resources, business rules, and so on. Policy Management for Autonomic Computing (PMAC) provides a mechanism and environment for creating and enforcing policies and automating these business scenarios. By using PMAC in this manner, your business will run more efficiently and with less process errors.

Date:  20 Sep 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (50 KB | 13 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial is written for IT Administrators who want to create new policies that define business rules and scenarios. After explaining some of the rudimentary concepts associated with a policy document, the tutorial describes a few fictional business scenarios. The tutorial then breaks the pieces of these scenarios into their policy-related components. Meanwhile, the policy Extensible Markup Language (XML) will be written and put together into functional policy documents.

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You must have a basic knowledge of XML to complete this tutorial. Additionally, you should understand the ins and outs of the PMAC application. Resources contains some useful XML and PMAC-related links.

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