Policy-based IT Systems Management

Kang-Won Lee: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA. (TEL) +1-914-784-7228 (FAX) +1-914-784-6205 (E-Mail) kangwon@us.ibm.com (URL) http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kangwon

Abstract

Policy-based technologies promise to reduce the burden of managing large scale computing systems by freeing human administrators from direct manipulation of underlying devices and systems, and by providing systematic means to create, modify, and distribute policies. PMAC is a policy middleware platform that has been developed for managing distributed computing systems based on the CIM policy model. PMAC features an open format extensible policy language, standard-based flexible binding and invocation model for managed systems, database and file-based policy persistence mechanism, and policy analysis capabilities such as policy conflict detection and resolution. This talk provides an overview of the PMAC architecture highlighting its components, presents the case study of PMAC in storage area network management, and discusses some of the lessons learned during the development of PMAC.

Short Biography

Kang-Won Lee: Kang-Won Lee is a research staff member in the networking and policy technology group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 2000. Before joining IBM, he worked as a research assistant for the TIMELY computer networks research group at the Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing, Urbana IL. Dr. Lee received a Ph.D. degree in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and he received a B.S. and a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Seoul National University in 1992 and 1994, respectively.

Dr. Lee was awarded Magna Cum Laude from Seoul National University in 1992 for academic excellence, the Korean Government Overseas Scholarship from the Ministry of Education in 1996, the KFSA Scholarship from the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies in 1997, the C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Computer Science Department at UIUC in 1999, and the Best Student Paper Award from the Packet Video Workshop in 2000. Recently, He received the IBM Research Division Award for his seminal work in developing the architecture of Policy Management Infrastructure and Products for Autonomic Computing Systems Management. Dr. Lee is the secretary of IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), and also has been the president of Korean Computer Scientists Engineers Association in America. Dr. Lee has more than 38 refereed technical publications in premiere journals and conferences in the computer networks field and has more than 10 patent filings. Dr. Lee has been invited to give technical seminars at prestigious research institutes including University of Illinois, University of Toronto, Purdue University, UC Davis, Arizona State University, Seoul National University, and KAIST. His current research interests are in distributed computing, computer networks, and policy-based system management,.