Patent Document ID: 20130024562
Application ID: 13579839
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing a network which has a plurality of interconnected network components, the method using a network model which includes component configuration data for each of the network components and component interconnection data for each connection between network components, the method comprising: a. selectively altering component configuration data for a first network component, or selectively altering component interconnection data for a first connection, thereby selectively altering a modeled state of the first network component or the first component connection within the network model; b. propagating the effect of such altering of a modeled state throughout the network model in dependence upon configuration data and interconnection data relating to the first network component and in dependence upon such data relating to other connected network components; c. monitoring the effect of said propagation on other network components within the network model.