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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2012
Malyadri Jaladanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Surya P. Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Gilbert Levesque, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Malyadri Jaladanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Surya P. Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Gilbert Levesque, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tellabs Operations, Inc., Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for managing and maintaining a network device are disclosed. A process performed by a router, for example, is able to generate configuration data in accordance with network configuration of the router and store the data in a memory. A converter generates human-readable representation of requested status in accordance with configuration data. For example, command line interface ('CLI') show output is generated by the converter for displaying system status. In one embodiment, a second converter is used to convert the configuration data to markup language configuration output such as extensible markup language ('XML') based CLI output. A script, in one aspect, is able to run test cases to verify network configuration in light of the markup language configuration output.