A frames-based Web browser is used with existing distributed computing environment
(DCE) interfaces to facilitate and simplify management of DCE cells. In the preferred
embodiment, administration may be performed from any secure Web browser acting
as a client. Management data is typically supported on a target Web server. At
the browser, CGI scripts are used to dynamically generate HTML (hypertext markup
language) pages based on the network administrator's selections and the current
state and defined objects in the DCE cell. The result is a robust and efficient
Web-based DCE management scheme.