Patent ID: 8555371

Claim:
A system comprising: a management system disposed within a first protected network, wherein the management system is operable to provide management operations with respect to a plurality of network nodes, the management operations comprising at least one management operation selected from the group consisting of scheduling use of a network node, updating software of a network node, and configuring a network node; at least one network node disposed within a second protected network; a router device communicatively coupled with said second protected network, wherein said router device identifies one or more of the at least one network node for which management permission is granted to the management system; and a manager support device disposed within the first protected network, wherein the manager support device receives identification of said one or more network nodes for which management permission is granted to the management system and assigns each of said one or more network nodes of the second protected network a localized address on the first protected network such that the one or more network nodes appear to the management system as residing on the first protected network and are accessible to the management system via their respective localized addresses assigned by the manager support device.