25. A system comprising: a processing device comprising computer memory storing a script containing simple object access protocol (SOAP) commands; and a device associated with an apparatus, the device for executing instructions stored in computer memory to perform operations comprising: receiving the script from the processing device, the script defining one or more variables that are used in execution of the script, at least some of the SOAP commands in the script including corresponding arguments; interpreting the script to execute functions contained in the script; parsing the SOAP commands from the script during execution of the functions; executing the SOAP commands; wherein the apparatus is configured by execution of the SOAP commands and the functions; and wherein the execution of the SOAP commands and the functions comprises passing a variable in the script as an argument to a first SOAP command, returning an output of the first SOAP command to the script, and executing a second SOAP command based on the output.
36. The system of claim 25 , wherein parsing is performed by an XML interpreter and executing is performed by a SOAP interpreter, the XML interpreter passing each SOAP command to the SOAP interpreter and the SOAP interpreter passing an output of each SOAP command to the XML interpreter.