Autonomic Computing

Self-Healing

A self-healing capability can detect the abnormal operation of the system and business processes (either in predictive or reactive mode), then initiate corrective and appropriate action. It needs to achieve this without disrupting the users. Actions such as balancing work load and volume or transactions are examples. The Tivoli software management availability portfolio of software products provides tools to assist in the autonomic monitoring of system health and performance. They also provide metrics from numerous resources to allow the filtering, correlation and analysis of system data. Based on this analysis, autonomic actions can be taken to halt problems—sometimes before they occur. Autonomic features are provided at multiple ...