Patent ID: 7007094

Claim:
A method for communicating between a web browser located on a first side of a firewall and a network element located on a second side of the firewall, comprising the steps of: providing the web browser with an applet to drive a user request, said applet provided by a web server included on the first side of the firewall; sending said user request to a read/write server provided on the second side of the firewall; creating a hypertext transfer protocol-simple object access protocol (HTTP-SOAP) of said user request; transmitting said HTTP-SOAP to network management application (NMA) server production on the second side of the firewall; building an appropriate nodal model of said user request in said NMA; sending SOAP encoded requests from said NMA to a network element agent (NEA) provided on the second side of the firewall; parsing said SOAP encoded requests received by said NMA in said NEA which encompasses data needed to complete a single nodal transaction; encoding in said NEA SOAP packets; transmitting said SOAP packets to a translater box associated with the network element, said translator box located on the second side of the firewall; translating said SOAP packet into the appropriate native console command for the network element; and transmitting aid native console command to the network element located on the second side of the firewall.