Published Paper Details:

Administration and management of application versions, system configurations and operation policies is a challenging and costly activity for large enterprises. Currently organizations involved in building large scale distributed systems deploy multiple applications written and implemented in different technologies and operating in heterogeneous environment. Different computing nodes have unique set of applications and policies, to provide designated services. For systems built to suit specific industry operation, periodic improvement of application logic and enhancement of functionalities becomes a regular affair. However, every time a new application patch/version is released for correction of bugs or enhancement of functionalities, it becomes a cumbersome task to timely and accurately deploys the right set of application versions and policies at the intended target machine. In this paper we have envisaged a centralized patch and configuration management framework through which the distribution of application patches and policies can be centrally controlled, monitored and implemented for large scale systems with geographically distributed endpoints having heterogeneous identities and operating environment. This allows centralized visibility of deployed managed resources/device and eliminates the necessity of manual distribution and update operations at each endpoint. This caters the need of scalable, centralized, authoritative repository, through independent and secure framework.