Facilitating provisioning in a mixed environment of locales

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9317828-B2
Application number	US-201414288020-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2014
Priority date	Feb 28, 2007
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

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. The management server further includes a provisioning circuit configured to dynamically determine, for a required logical device operation among the plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning. Each of the resource servers is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales in advance of the 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

The invention claimed is:

1. A management server comprising:
a storage table configured to store a plurality of logical device operations, a plurality of locales, and a plurality of workflows;
a provisioning circuit configured to dynamically determine, for a required logical device operation among the plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning, wherein each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales in advance of the provisioning; and
a calling circuit configured to, upon the resource server being dynamically determined for the required logical device operation, 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.

2. The management server according to 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 according to 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 according to claim 1 , wherein a locale associated with the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively associated with all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

5. The management server according to 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 according to 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 according to 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 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, causes the computer to perform the steps of:
storing, via a storage table, a plurality of logical device operations, a plurality of locales, and a plurality of workflows;
dynamically determining, for a required logical device operation among the plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning, wherein each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales in advance of the provisioning; and
upon dynamically determining the resource server for the required logical device operation, searching 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.

9. The computer program product according to 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 computer program product according to claim 8 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of an associated workload.

11. The computer program product according to claim 8 , wherein a locale associated with the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively associated with all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

12. The computer program product according to 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. The computer program product according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of locales and the plurality of workflows are able to be edited independently from each other.

14. A method for causing a computer to function as a management server, the method comprising:
storing, via a storage table, a plurality of logical device operations, a plurality of locales, and a plurality of workflows;
dynamically determining, for a required logical device operation among the plurality of logical device operations, a resource server among all resource servers connected to the management server by way of provisioning, wherein each resource server among all of the resource servers connected to the management server is associated with a different one of the plurality of locales in advance of the provisioning; and
upon dynamically determining the resource server for the required logical device operation, searching 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.

15. The method according to claim 14 , 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.

16. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the provisioning is carried out based on a policy set in advance and a notification of an associated workload.

17. The method according to claim 14 , wherein a locale associated with the management server is different from the plurality of locales respectively associated with all of the resource servers connected to the management server.

18. The method according to claim 14 , 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.

19. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the plurality of locales and the plurality of workflows are able to be edited independently from each other.

20. The method according to claim 14 , 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.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Gotoh Yasuhisa
• Akamatsu Takeshi

Classifications

• 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

• G06Q10/06316 Primary

  Sequencing of tasks or work · 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

• 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