Patent ID: 8255509

Claim:
A network service configuration management system for network addressing management by remotely managing the configuration of at least one network service, comprising: a management server; a database configured to store a representation of the configuration of the network service; an agent software component for accessing the configuration in a native language of the network service; a plurality of agent software components; wherein: the management server is adapted to access the database; the management server and the agent software component are adapted to communicate synchronization information to each other, to synchronize the representation of the configuration of the network service in the database and the native language configuration of the network service with each other, based on the synchronization information; the synchronization information defines the differences in configuration between a new state and an older state; the synchronization information being in a language different from the native language of the configuration of the network service; the database is adapted to form a dynamic network address directory by storing a representation of the configuration of the plurality of network services; each agent software component has access to the configuration in native language of a respective network service; the management server and each agent software component are adapted to communicate synchronization information to each other and to synchronize the configuration in native language of the respective network service and the representation of the configuration of the respective network service in the database with each other based on said synchronization information, said synchronization information being provided in a language different from the native language of the configuration of the respective network service; and the plurality of network services have different native configuration languages; and said synchronization information communicated by the management server and the plurality of agent software components is in a same language.