Patent ID: 8122111

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a change in a first configuration, wherein the first configuration configures a remote server; obtaining, by a managing server in response to the detecting, the first and a second configurations, each said configuration including a set of configuration elements wherein at least one configuration element is to control access from a remote client to a storage facility of a server; comparing elements of the first configuration to corresponding elements of the second configuration to identify the change; and reporting the change between the first configuration and the second configuration based on a result of said comparing; receiving, by the managing server, an input indicating to reject the change; overwriting, by the managing server in response to the input, the first configuration on the remote server with the second configuration; and providing, by the managing server, a set of local change restrictions to the remote server, wherein the set of local change restrictions defines elements of the second configuration that require permission from the managing server to change and wherein the remote server uses the set of local change restrictions to determine whether to make a change to the second configuration without permission from the managing server.