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Due to downsising, deregulation and tremendous growth, computing and telecommunications systems have become heterogeneous and complex environments with multiple players involved. For managing such systems more powerful methods than those used for network element management are needed. It must be possible to structure and partition management according to responsibilities, to provide managers with higher-level abstractions and to enable them to flexibly adapt the way of management to their specific needs. To fulfil these requirements, we introduce domain-based management policies. Policies allow the specification of management intention on different levels of abstraction. We discuss policy classification, formalisation and hierarchies. Then we present an architecture for policy enforcement services Finally, we outline two application scenarios in the areas of distributed systems and telecommunication.
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Alpers, B., Plansky, H. (1995). Concepts and Application of Policy-Based Management. In: Sethi, A.S., Raynaud, Y., Faure-Vincent, F. (eds) Integrated Network Management IV. IM 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_5
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