INSPECTING THE POLICY CONFLICTS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

The activities required to ensure that broad distributed networks will operate in compliance with their users' goals are referred to as distributed system management. This goals are usually stated in the form of policies, which are then interpreted by system administrators. There are advantages of offering automatic assistance to human administrators or automating repetitive management functions. It is desirable to provide a model of policies as artefacts that can be represented by the framework itself in order to accomplish this. This is a summary of the model. There is no doubt that policy conflicts will arise. Human administrators may be able to handle these disputes informally, so in order for an automated framework to recognise and resolve them properly, it must first analyse the forms of dispute that may arise. We examine the different forms of policy overlap that may exist to explain how this study relates to the different types of policy dispute. This study is placed in the light of other work on policy, authority and similar fields, including deontic reasoning, and several alternative approaches to dispute prevention and resolution are proposed