Patent ID: 8745722

Claim:
A method for managing data routing information in a communications system, the method comprising: defining, in a client network apparatus, a unique private IP address for a terminal located in a remote customer network, the unique private IP address uniquely identifying the terminal and the corresponding remote customer network; defining, in the client network apparatus, an IP routing address for the remote customer network; routing a data packet from the client network apparatus to a virtual private network tunnel having the IP routing address defined for the remote customer network, the data packet being directed to the remote customer network, the remote customer network being identified by the unique private IP address, and providing a client network apparatus user interface providing a view for a user to configure security templates and security template parameters, wherein a security template involves a template me and template data, the template type being an execute template type, an execute loop for each terminal template type, or a create file template type, the execute template type running a command defined in a command parameter, the execute loop for each terminal template type executing the command, the command parameter being cloned for each terminal using the template, and the create file template type taking file name and file content as a parameter, wherein the unique private IP address of the terminal is translated into a corresponding customer IP address of the terminal in order the data packet to be routable to the terminal in the remote customer network.