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{{Short description|Process by which computer systems manage their own operation without human intervention}}
'''Self-management''' is the process by which [[computer]] systems manage their own operation without human intervention. Self-management technologies are expected to pervade the next generation of [[network management]] systems.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

The growing [[complexity]] of modern [[computer network|networked computer systems]] is a limiting factor in their expansion. The increasing [[heterogeneity]] of corporate computer systems, the inclusion of [[mobile computing]] devices, and the combination of different networking technologies like [[Wireless LAN|WLAN]], [[cellular phone]] networks, and [[mobile ad hoc networks]] make the conventional, manual management difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone. More recently, self-management has been suggested as a solution to increasing complexity in [[cloud computing]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Puviani and Friel|date=2013|title=Self-Management for cloud computing|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6661855|journal=Proceedings of Science and InformationConference (SAI), 2013|pages=940–946|via=IEEE Xplore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lynn|first1=Theo|last2=Xiong|first2=Huanhuan|last3=Dong|first3=Dapeng|last4=Momani|first4=Bilal|last5=Gravvanis|first5=George|last6=Filelis-Papadopoulos|first6=Christos|last7=Elster|first7=Anne|last8=Khan|first8=Malik Muhammad Zaki Murtaza|last9=Tzovaras|first9=Dimitrios|chapter=CLOUDLIGHTNING: A Framework for a Self-organising and Self-managing Heterogeneous Cloud |title=Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science|pages=333–338|doi=10.5220/0005921503330338|year=2016|isbn=978-989-758-182-3|s2cid=1538980 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

An industrial initiative towards realizing self-management is the [[Autonomic Computing]] Initiative (ACI) started by [[IBM]] in 2001. The ACI defines the following four functional areas:

; Self-configuration
: [[Auto-configuration]] of [[Component-based software engineering|components]]
; Self-healing
: Automatic [[Fault detection and isolation|discovery]], and [[Error detection and correction|correction of faults]]; automatically applying all necessary actions to bring system back to normal operation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Self-Healability – S-Cube – European Network of Excellence |url=http://www.s-cube-network.eu/km/terms/s/self-healability/index.html |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=www.s-cube-network.eu}}</ref>
; Self-optimization
: Automatic [[monitoring and control]] of resources to ensure the optimal functioning with respect to the defined requirements
; Self-protection
: Proactive identification and protection from arbitrary attacks

==See also==
*[[Fault tolerance]]
*[[Resilience (network)]]
*[[Robustness (computer science)]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/autonomic/library/ac-roadmap/ Practical Autonomic Computing - Roadmap to Self Managing Technology]

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