Patent ID: 8606925

Claim:
A system for generating reusable network configuration objects comprising: a system bus; a local memory connected to the system bus, wherein the local memory has computer program code stored thereon; one or more processors connected to the system bus wherein at least one of the one or more processors executes the computer program code stored in the local memory to direct an administrative system for managing configuration of a networked system of individual computers, to: automatically capture network resources for each individual computer of the networked system using a configuration resource file associated with a respective individual system into a configuration data structure associated with the networked system; define a reusable object name for each distinct class of network resources in the configuration data structure, wherein each distinct class of network resources has at least one common feature across each individual system of the networked system; and, automatically map each network resource having a particular class of each individual system to a corresponding reusable object name defined for said particular class.