System and method for generating a representation of a configuration schema

• US 20060179131A1
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mike Courtney
• Original Assignee: Mike Courtney
• Inventors: Courtney, Mike
• Application Number:
  US11/397,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179131A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A system and method for managing and modeling a network device using a representation of a configuration schema is disclosed. One implementation includes a configuration hash key storage module; a configuration hash object storage module; and a configuration manager.

Claims

1. A method for modeling a command structure of a particular network component, the method comprising:

accessing the particular a network component, wherein the particular network component is capable of facilitating communications in a network;

retrieving a command set from the network component, the command set includes commands for configuring the particular network component, and wherein the commands for configuring the particular network components differ from other commands utilized for configuring other network components;

generating a representation of the retrieved command set, wherein the generated representation corresponds to the network component, and wherein the generating the representation includes;

generating a hash key corresponding to at least a portion of the retrieved command set; and

generating a hash object corresponding to the generated hash key, wherein the generated hash object includes metadata, the metadata including information that identifies the network component from among a plurality of network components.