Patent ID: 8539556

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, the program comprising: code that obtains a request from a customer of an entity to disable administrative access to at least one server computing device in a networked plurality of computing devices, wherein the customer has contracted with the entity for use of at least one computing resource of the at least one server computing device in the networked plurality of computing devices for a fee; code that determines whether the customer has permission to disable the administrative access to the at least one server computing device; code that disables the administrative access to the at least one server computing device in response to the request when the customer has permission; wherein the administrative access to the at least one server computing device remains irrevocably disabled until a reset of the at least one server computing device is performed; wherein an interactive login capability for at least one administrative user is disabled when the administrative access is disabled; and wherein an administrative monitoring subsystem of the at least one server computing device remains active when the administrative access is disabled.