Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of accessing a remote computer system to initiate maintenance and management accesses on remote network computer systems are provided. A device is used to access the remote computer system. The device uses a Web service to gain access to the remote computer system as well as to instruct the remote computer system to initiate a maintenance and management access on a remote network computer system. In a particular embodiment, the interaction between the device and the remote computer system occurs through a Web browser. Further in cases where the network computer system is off, Wake-On-LAN (WOL) technology is used to turn the network computer system on. In addition, if the network computer system does not have an operating system (OS) installed thereon, Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) bootstrapping technology is used to download an image of an OS to the network computer. After the network computer is up and running it may be instructed to perform different tasks (e.g.

Abstract: A security system interface which uses the message passing capability of the distributed application to send messages to remote copies of itself and the security system at the remote system to carry out the remote user profile administration function at the remote machine. A message for a remote user profile administration function is constructed in a syntax used by a distributed application. The message is sent by a local copy of the distributed application resident at a local system to a remote copy of the distributed application resident at a remote system. The message is translated by the security system interface resident at the remote system into a user profile function usable by the security system. Finally, the user profile function is performed by a security system resident at the remote system. In the preferred embodiment, the distributed application is a database management program and the message is a data structure containing information for the remote user profile administration function.