Traversing firewalls
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsGregory Eugene Perkins, Curtis Reese
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Abstract
A remote administrator device is provided outside a firewall that prevents remote devices from accessing, but allows remote devices to send electronic mail messages to a plurality of local network devices. The remote administrator device can send an electronic mail message to a respective one of the plurality of local network devices behind the firewall. The electronic mail message can include instructions for the respective local network device to establish a connection with the remote administrator device through the firewall. Once the connection is established, the remote administrator device can monitor state data received over the connection for the respective local network device.
Claims15
A method of traversing a firewall that prevents remote devices for accessing, but allows remote devices to send electronic mail messages to, a plurality of local network devices, the method performed by a hardware processor of a remote administrator device and comprising:
- sending an electronic mail message to a respective one of the plurality of local network devices behind the firewall, the electronic mail message comprising instructions for the respective local network device to establish a connection with the remote administrator device located outside the firewall;
- and
- monitoring state data for the respective local network device, the state data being received over the connection.
A remote administrator device comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor located outside a firewall, cause the remote administrator device to:
- send an electronic mail message to a respective one of a plurality of local network devices behind the firewall, the electronic mail message comprising instructions for the respective local network device to establish a connection with the remote administrator device, wherein the firewall prevents remote devices from accessing, but allows remote devices to send electronic mail messages to the plurality of local network devices;
- and
- monitor state data for the respective local network device, the state data being received over the connection.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a hardware processor of a remote administrator device located outside a firewall, cause the remote administrator device to:
- send an electronic mail message to a respective one of a plurality of local network devices behind the firewall, the electronic mail message comprising instructions for the respective local network device to establish a connection with the remote administrator device, wherein the firewall prevents remote devices from accessing, but allows remote devices to send electronic mail messages to the plurality of local network devices;
- and
- monitor state data for the respective local network device, the state data being received over the connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.