Patent ID: 7620704

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying an operating system level of a target server; determining one or more security levels for the target server based on the identified operating system level of the target server; selecting one of the one or more security levels for the target server; and identifying at least one role for the target server based on the selected security level; obtaining a current configuration from the target server, the current configuration including one or more roles that the target server is capable of performing; assigning one of the one or more roles to the target server that the target server is capable of performing, wherein the assigned one of the one or more roles is also the at least one role identified based on the selected security level; identifying one or more services associated with the one assigned role; identifying one or more ports associated with the one assigned role presenting the identified services and ports associated with the one assigned role to a user; and requesting the user to select among the identified ports for activation in the target server.