Patent ID: 8631103

Claim:
A hardware system for administering a remote dynamic computing environment comprising: a computer system coupled to communicate with the remote dynamic computing environment by the Internet, wherein the computer system is configured to display a web page on the computer system to a user, wherein the web page comprises a list of administrative actions and a list of computing devices in the remote dynamic computing environment, and wherein the computer system is different than the computing devices; one or more computing devices in the list of computing devices responsive to a signal indicating an administrative action in the list of administrative actions, wherein the signal is provided from the computer system to the one or more computing devices via the Internet, in response to selection of the one or more computing devices and the administrative action via the web page; a server configured to initialize the one or more computing devices in the remote computing environment, in response to the one or more computing devices locating the server, wherein the server is not part of the dynamic computing environment, wherein receipt of the signal causes each of the one or more computing devices to locate the server, wherein initializing the one or more computing devices comprises adding the one or more computing devices to the remote dynamic computing environment, wherein the server is part of a different local network than the computer system, wherein the server is a different system than the computer system; and a software process configured to initiate the administrative action on the one or more computing devices.