Patent ID: 7752293

Claim:
A method for command processing, comprising: providing a managed object from an element management system of a switch to a network operations center, the managed object corresponding to a command, the command associated with a noun and a verb, the noun representing an item, the verb representing an action to perform on the item, the managed object describing generation of a request for the command, the element management system operable to configure the switch; receiving a request for the command generated in accordance to the managed object, the request comprising an extensible markup language (XML) request, the XML request comprising a noun value corresponding to the noun, the XML request comprising a verb value corresponding to the verb; implementing a common object request broker architecture (CORBA) interface servant of the element management system to extract the XML request; extracting the noun value and the verb value from the XML request; generating an extensible markup language document from the noun value and the verb value; generating a request object from the extensible markup language document; determining a reply in response to the request; and transmitting the reply.