NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

摘要

Customer premise network configuration to enable a new service within the network is provided by a network configuration manager (200 Figure 2). The network configuration manager is either manually or automatically invoked up on a new service being used in the network. The configuration manager obtains a service template (220) for the service, which template provides generic end- to- end requirements for enabling the service. A configuration generator generat es vendor-neutral device-configuration settings from the service template. A service configuration validator module then validates the service (212). Finally, an adaptor (214) module translates the vendor-neutral device- configuration settings to vendor specific configuration settings correspondi ng to the devices in the network and configures the devices.