Patent ID: 8639839

Claim:
One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of ensuring that data is properly routed through a communications network, the method comprising: confirming, without user interaction, that a set of one or more routing components associated with said communications network is properly configured, wherein said confirming includes: (A) determining a routing component of said routing components to check; (B) running a script that establishes a remote terminal session with the routing component; (C) automatically, by way of the script, (i) commanding the routing component to save the currently-running configuration of the routing component to nonvolatile memory; (ii) commanding the routing component to disable paging of output responses; and (iii) querying said routing component for a set of the currently-running configuration parameters of said routing component saved in nonvolatile memory and retrieving from the routing component the set of currently-running configuration parameters; (D) comparing said retrieved set of currently-running configuration parameters against a benchmark set of configuration parameters that contains desired configuration parameters for the routing component; and (E) indicating differences between said retrieved set of currently-running configuration parameters and said benchmark set of configuration parameters.