A System for Supporting Creation of Procedure Manuals for Network Device Configuration

When constructing networks or changing network designs, workers follow procedure manuals to issue commands to network devices. Procedure manuals are usually created manually, and may include mistakes. We therefore extend Graphical Network Simulator 3 for supporting creation of procedure manuals for network device configurations. In our system, users first use a virtual network to construct a target network, then verify the network using a verification function. Users then produce manuals from a procedure-manual creation function. Using our system, procedure manuals can be created while suppressing human errors and variation in user experience. Experimental evaluations confirm that procedure manuals created by our system can be used for configuring network devices.