Patent ID: 8615570

Claim:
A method for use in a computer system comprising at least one computer, the at least one computer comprising a plurality of media managers that enable the at least one computer to communicate using a plurality of networking technologies, the method comprising acts of: providing at least one management interface that enables an administrator to configure a plurality of sets of one or more configuration settings, the sets of configuration settings corresponding, respectively, to the media managers, each set of configuration settings being used by its corresponding media manager to configure at least one corresponding network interface of the at least one computer to control how the at least one computer communicates using a networking technology enabled by the corresponding media manager; using at least one processor to enable the administrator to create, via the at least one management interface, a plurality of configuration profiles that each corresponds to one of the plurality of media managers, respectively, each configuration profile being created based at least in part on a corresponding set of configuration settings configured by the administrator; and providing the plurality of configuration profiles to the at least one computer in a same configuration file having a particular format, the particular format comprising a first section and a second section different from the first section, the first section storing configuration information that is not specific to any particular network or networking technology, the second section storing at least the plurality of configuration profiles created by the administrator.