WE CLAIM:
1. A method (500) for performing a configuration audit for a network entity
(110) in a communication network (106), the method (500) comprising:
5 retrieving (502), by a selection module (212), a configuration file
associated with the network entity (110) from a central database (112) based
on a user input received via a user interface;
parsing (504), by a syntax parser module (214), the retrieved
configuration file to determine an existence of at least one configuration audit
10 command in a predefined mode;
executing (506), based on the parsing, by the syntax parser module
(214), the at least one configuration audit command with at least one linguistic
parameter to perform a compliance test on the parsed configuration file; and
generating (508), by a report generation module (216), a configuration
15 audit report for the network entity (110) based on the compliance test.
2. The method (500) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user input comprises a
trigger for initiating the configuration audit for the network entity (110) and
the at least one configuration audit command.
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3. The method (500) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predefined mode
comprises at least one of a silo mode, a solo hived entity and a non-solo hived
entity.
25 4. The method (500) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one linguistic
parameter comprises verbose, succeeds, immediately succeeds, precedes, or
does not care.
5. The method (500) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one linguistic
parameter facilitates declarative syntax for parsing the configuration file