Patent ID: 8090815

Claim:
A method for configuring a network, the method comprising: creating, using a Network Management Station (NMS), a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) context, an associated SNMP context name and an associated SNMP view, the NMS being configured to communicate with a plurality of network devices in the network; specifying, using the NMS, a network configuration associated with the SNMP context and an order of the network devices, wherein the specified order comprises an order in which SNMP SET commands are executed on the network devices; issuing, using the NMS, the SNMP SET commands in the specified order such that the network configuration associated with the SNMP context is validated by all of the network devices in the specified order; in response to validation of the network configuration by all of the network devices, pushing, using the NMS and in the specified order, the network configuration associated with the SNMP context to each of the network devices; and performing, using the NMS, an SNMP WALK on all of the network devices to verify implementation of the network configuration associated with the SNMP context, wherein the implementation is based on the pushing, wherein the SNMP WALK is performed using the SNMP context name and within the time taken for pushing the network configuration across all of the network devices.