POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, POLICY MANAGER, POLICY AGENT, RULE GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically generate a rule for allowing a policy manager to decide whether an application program (AP) to be monitored in each policy agent normally operates or not. PSOLUTION: A conversion dictionary storage part 15 is registered with a conversion dictionary including a normal condition of a monitoring parameter, the monitoring parameter, and a monitoring category showing the kind of monitoring processing for the AP in each the AP to be monitored and a policy storage part 16 is registered with policy description describing the monitoring category showing the kind of the monitoring processing for the AP of each importance level and the importance level of each the AP to be monitored. A rule generation means 17 extracts a set of the normal condition, the monitoring parameter, and the monitoring category satisfying the policy description registered in the policy storage part 16 from the conversion dictionary corresponding to the AP of the policy agent 2-1 among the conversion dictionaries registered in the conversion dictionary storage part 15 as the rule based on contents of the policy storage part 16 and the conversion dictionary storage part 15. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT