Refining of Applicability Rules of Management Activities According to Missing Fulfilments Thereof

摘要

A mechanism is provided for managing a plurality of computing machines. An indication of a management activity having an applicability rule is deployed to a plurality of computing machines to cause each of the plurality of computing machines having corresponding values of one or more characteristics fulfilling the applicability rule to apply the management activity. Results are received indicating that the management activity has been applied successfully on corresponding success computing machines and that the management activity has not been applied on corresponding excluded computing machines. One or more candidate computing machines of the excluded computing machines is selected according to a comparison of the corresponding values of the further characteristics of the excluded computing machines with a success fingerprint. An indication of rule transformations and corresponding frequencies for use in transforming the applicability rule accordingly to a number of the candidate computing machines is then provided.