Policy driven infrastructure management

The operations of almost all organisations critically depend on the computing infrastructure and its applications. Therefore, it is vital to provide system administrators with appropriate tools to manage these infrastructures. The management of a large scale computing infrastructure and its applications has become a complex problem. In this project, we want do develop an environment that enables holistic management of the infrastructure. We propose a high level, network wide policy language to specify the desired behaviour of the infrastructure. Also, we design a modular platform which enforces the policy on all devices in the infrastructure, and which supports dynamic reconfiguration. Our project will create an environment with a high level of abstraction for the task of infrastructure management. This will enable network administrators to manage large infrastructures with less effort.