Structure of policy information for storage, network and data management applications

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and a method for defining policies that can be used in various types of management applications for automating and performing one or more actions on at least one resource in a computer network environment. The system is configured to receive a signal indicating occurrence of a monitored event; identify rules having first conditions that are based upon the monitored event; and identify one or more rules from the rules having the first conditions for which the first conditions are satisfied. The one or more rules define one or more actions to be performed upon satisfying one or more second conditions based upon one or more non-monitored attributes of at least one resource. At least one rule is identified from the one or more rules for which the one or more second conditions of the at least one rule are also satisfied. The one or more actions to be performed for the at least one rule are defined, and are performed on the at least one resource.