Visual composition of management policies
Vítor Roque, José Luís Oliveira, Rui Pedro Lopes · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2003
Policy based management have gained a crescent importance in the last years.New demands on internetworking, on services specification, on QoS achievement and generically on network management functionality, have driven this paradigm to a very important level.The main idea is to provide services that allow specifying management and operational rules in the same way people do business.Despite the main association of this technology with network management solutions, its generality allows to extend these principles to any business process inside an organization.In this paper we discuss the main proposals in the field, namely the IETF/DMTF model, and we present a proposal that allows the specification of policy rules through a user-friendly and component-oriented graphical interface.