1. A method for analyzing the semantic content of network configuration files of a communication network, comprising: electronically accessing configuration files associated with corresponding network components of said network, said files containing commands that define the configuration of those components in said network; transforming, by using a processor, said commands into a structural database based, at least in part, on a non-grammatical analysis of said commands, wherein the structure of said commands is represented as said structural database; and constructing a semantic database of said configuration files by querying said structural database.