Patent ID: 7949734
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of re-generating configuration commands of a network device using an object-based approach, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: creating and storing one or more command-path patterns and one or more command templates representing one or more configuration commands for a network device, wherein one or more of the one or more configuration commands define one or more parameters; receiving a particular configuration command and one or more particular parameters; wherein each particular parameter of the one or more particular parameters is associated with a particular value; creating one or more objects respectively representing the one or more particular parameters based on parsing the particular configuration command; wherein a particular object of the one or more objects contains a value associated with a particular parameter of the one or more particular parameters; receiving a request to re-generate the particular configuration command; in response to receiving the request to re-generate the particular configuration command: wherein the method is performed by one or more network devices.