Patent ID: 9722868
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing cloud-based network management services comprising: providing at least one cloud extension agent that facilitates cloud-based management of corporate computing resources by execution on one or more computers that are part of a corporate network, the corporate network being separated from the Internet by at least one firewall, the firewall operating independently of the cloud extension agent, wherein each cloud extension agent is configured to: providing to an administrator, as part of the cloud-based management platform, a web-based portal that allows the administrator to request configuration changes to the one or more local servers; and creating, at the cloud-based management platform, in response to configuration changes initiated via the web-based portal, the set of instructions to be sent to the at least one cloud extension agent via the secure network connection.