Facilitating provisioning in a mixed environment of locales

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10600014-B2
Application number	US-201615011319-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Feb 28, 2007
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

Aspects capable of dynamically and flexibly supporting a plurality of locales upon provisioning are provided. An associated management server includes a storage table configured to store a plurality of logical device operations, a plurality of locales, and a plurality of workflows, wherein each resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales. The management server further includes a provisioning circuit configured to dynamically determine, for a required logical device operation, a resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning. The management server further includes a calling circuit configured to search the storage table using a locale among the plurality of locales that is associated with the dynamically determined resource server to select a workflow from the plurality of workflows for the required logical device operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management server comprising:
a provisioning circuit configured to dynamically determine, for a required logical device operation among a plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server and to assign the required logical device operation to the dynamically determined resource server by way of provisioning, wherein a different locale among a plurality of locales is set for each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server in advance of the provisioning; and
a calling circuit configured to select a workflow among a plurality of workflows for the required logical device operation based upon the locale among the plurality of locales that is set for the dynamically determined resource server.

2. The management server of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of occurrence of an error in an associated system.

3. The management server of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of an associated workload.

4. The management server of claim 1 , wherein a locale set for the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively set for all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

5. The management server of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of locales are hierarchically organized to comprise at least one upper-level locale and at least one lower-level locale, and wherein each of the at least one lower-level locale is defined within a locale group referenced one hierarchical level above the lower-level locale.

6. The management server of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of locales and the plurality of workflows are able to be edited independently from each other.

7. The management server of claim 1 , wherein an additional locale is able to be added to the plurality of locales, and wherein an additional workflow corresponding to the additional locale is able to be added to the plurality of workflows.

8. A method for causing a computer to function as a management server, the method comprising:
dynamically determining, for a required logical device operation among a plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server and assigning the required logical device operation to the dynamically determined resource server by way of provisioning, wherein a different locale among a plurality of locales is set for each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server in advance of the provisioning; and
selecting a workflow among a plurality of workflows for the required logical device operation based upon the locale among the plurality of locales that is set for the dynamically determined resource server.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of occurrence of an error in an associated system.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of an associated workload.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein a locale set for the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively set for all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of locales are hierarchically organized to comprise at least one upper-level locale and at least one lower-level locale, and wherein each of the at least one lower-level locale is defined within a locale group referenced one hierarchical level above the lower-level locale.

13. A computer program product on a non-transitory recording medium for causing a computer to function as a management server, the computer program product comprising computer-readable instructions, which, when loaded in and executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform steps of:
dynamically determining, for a required logical device operation among a plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server and assigning the required logical device operation to the dynamically determined resource server by way of provisioning, wherein a different locale among a plurality of locales is set for each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server in advance of the provisioning; and
selecting a workflow among a plurality of workflows for the required logical device operation based upon the locale among the plurality of locales that is set for the dynamically determined resource server.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of occurrence of an error in an associated system.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of an associated workload.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein a locale set for the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively set for all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of locales are hierarchically organized to comprise at least one upper-level locale and at least one lower-level locale, and wherein each of the at least one lower-level locale is defined within a locale group referenced one hierarchical level above the lower-level locale.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Gotoh Yasuhisa
• Akamatsu Takeshi

Classifications

• G06F40/58

  Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation · CPC title

• G06Q10/06316 Primary

  Sequencing of tasks or work · CPC title

• G06F9/5066

  Algorithms for mapping a plurality of inter-dependent sub-tasks onto a plurality of physical CPUs (mappping at compile time, see G06F8/451) · CPC title

• G06F9/454

  Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation · CPC title

• G06F9/5027

  the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals · CPC title