Patent ID: 7200548
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for modeling a configuration corresponding to a network device, wherein the configuration includes a plurality of configuration commands, the method comprising: determining a characteristic of the network device, wherein determining the characteristic of the network device comprises determining one of a network device manufacturer, network device model, and network device operating system version; retrieving a representation of a configuration schema, the representation of a configuration schema corresponding to the determined characteristic of the network device, wherein the representation of the configuration schema comprises a plurality of schema portions and wherein retrieving the representation of the configuration schema comprises: retrieving an intermediate representation of the configuration schema, wherein the intermediate representation comprises a plurality of keys; wherein each of the plurality of keys is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of schema portions; and retrieving a first of the plurality of configuration commands from the network device configuration corresponding to the network device; and generating an XML object corresponding to the retrieved configuration command; wherein the XML object is generated according to at least a portion of the retrieved representation of the configuration schema.