Routing component quality assurance

1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of ensuring that data is properly routed through a communications network, the method comprising:

confirming, without user interaction, that a set of one or more routing components associated with said communications network is properly configured, wherein said confirming includes:

(A) determining a routing component of said routing components to check;

(B) running a script that establishes a remote terminal session with the routing component;

(C) automatically, by way of the script,

(i) commanding the routing component to save the currently-running configuration of the routing component to nonvolatile memory;

(ii) commanding the routing component to disable paging of output responses; and

(iii) querying said routing component for a set of the currently-running configuration parameters of said routing component saved in nonvolatile memory and retrieving from the routing component the set of currently-running configuration parameters;

(D) comparing said retrieved set of currently-running configuration parameters against a benchmark set of configuration parameters that contains desired configuration parameters for the routing component; and

(E) indicating differences between said retrieved set of currently-running configuration parameters and said benchmark set of configuration parameters.

2. The media of claim 1 , wherein said querying comprises:

providing a set of commands that determine a configuration associated with said routing component; and

saving said configuration.

3. The media of claim 1 , wherein comparing said retrieved set of current configuration parameters against said benchmark set of configuration parameters comprises identifying any differences between said retrieved set of current configuration parameters and said benchmark set of configuration parameters.

4. The media of claim 3 , wherein said benchmark set of configuration parameters comprise an expected set of configuration parameters.

5. The media of claim 1 , further comprising repeating steps A-E for as many routing components as are in said set.

6. The media of claim 1 , further comprising presenting a set of results associated with said comparison.

7. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of automatically ensuring that a routing component is configured as desired in a communications network, the method comprising:

providing one or more reference data sets containing desired routing-component configuration parameters;

(A) running a script that establishes a remote terminal session with one or more routing components in the network;

(B) automatically, by way of the script,

(i) commanding the one or more routing components to save one or more currently-running configurations of the one or more routing components to nonvolatile memory;

(ii) commanding the one or more routing components to disable paging of output responses;

(iii) retrieving the one or more currently-running configurations that comprise currently-running configuration parameters of the set of one or more routing components in the network;

comparing the one or more reference data sets with the one or more currently-running configurations; and

identifying differences between the one or more reference data sets and the one or more currently-running configurations.

8. The media of claim 7 , wherein retrieving said one or more currently-running configurations comprises:

executing a list of commands that determines said current currently-running configuration parameters from said one or more routing components.

9. The media of claim 7 , further comprising presenting results of said comparison on a user interface.