Patent ID: 7523184

Claim:
A change management system comprising: a plurality of network management objects connected to a network, wherein each network management object is associated with network management object configuration information; a plurality of network application servers, wherein one or more applications reside on each network application server; a datastore, wherein the datastore comprises last known configuration information associated with the network management objects; and a core engine connected to the network, wherein the core engine comprises instructions for: polling the plurality of network management objects for current configuration information of each of the plurality of network management objects; receiving the current configuration information from each of the plurality of network management objects; and for each of the network management objects, making a determination as to whether a current network management object configuration information is different from a last known network management object configuration information as stored in the datastore; if the current network management object configuration information is different from the last known network management object configuration information, then processing the current network management object configuration information received from the network management object to obtain a new network management object configuration file; identifying an application that uses the configuration information of the network management object; and sending the new network management object configuration file to each of the plurality of application servers on which the identified application resides.