Patent ID: 8214885

Claim:
A network management apparatus comprising: a first storage device containing public key data, root certificate authority data, a plurality of IP addresses, and technician device-network component connection shutdown data solely for disabling an IP connection between a network component and a technician device, wherein the technician device has special network privileges and securely stores network and related administrative data; and a second storage device containing network data, instructional scripts guiding associated operations of the network component when the second storage device is inserted into the network component and technician device callback data relating to establishing only a technician device-network component connection between the network component and the technician device, the technician device callback data in the form of an IP address of the technician device to enable the network component to make an IP connection only to the technician device, wherein the network data and the instructional scripts on the second storage device are signed using the public key data stored on the first storage device.