Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

David Gnadinger

Terry D Thacker

Gary Thomas Metcalf

An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for automatically notifying a network administrator of a mismatch between a current software version level in a telecommunications switch and a corresponding entry in a database. The apparatus includes a computer for querying the telecommunications switch for the current software version level of the switch and for querying the database, wherein the database is associated with a switch translation system and the database includes an entry associated with the software version level of the switch. The computer compares the current software version level of the switch with the database entry associated with the software version level of the switch. The method and the computer readable medium include establishing communication between a host computer and a telecommunications switch; querying the switch for the current software version level of the switch; establishing communications between the host computer and a switch translation system; querying a database associated with the switch translation system for a corresponding entry in the database associated with the software version level of the switch; storing the current software version level of the switch in a data store associated with the host computer; and storing the database entry in a data store associated with the host computer.

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David Gnadinger