Towards Automated Auditing for Network Configuration Changes
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IP network operators face the challenge of making and managing low-level device configuration changes to accommodate the rapidly evolving needs of IP networks. As a first step towards automating this task, we explore a data-driven approach to audit high-level change activity in IP networks, by reverse engineering low-level longitudinal configuration data. We demonstrate the utility of our approach in auditing changes for five operational networks.
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