17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising using the one or more processing devices to organize the one or more CLI characteristics received from each given network device as CLI data using ontology related standards.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising using the one or more processing devices to organize the one or more CLI characteristics received from each given network device as CLI data using ontology related standards. 18. The method of claim 17 , where the one or more processing devices are configured to execute the CLI knowledge model creation step to organize the one or more CLI characteristics received from each given network device as CLI data using at least one of the following ontology related standards: ISO 13584/15926 Industrial automation systems and integration, ISO15944 Business Operation View, ISO 24800 Registration, identification and management of schema and ontology, ISO 19132 Geographical Information —Location-based services —Reference model, ISO 11179 Metadata Registries standard, ISO 19763 Meta-Model Framework Standard, ISO 20944 Metadata Registry Interoperability and Bindings, ISO 19763 Meta Model for interoperability and for ontology registration, ISO 13250 Topic Maps, ISO 18048 Topic Map Query Language (TMQL), ISO 19756 Topic Maps Constraint Language, ISO 18629 Process Specific Language, ISO 19115 Geospatial Meta Standards, ISO 24707 Common Logic Standard, ISO 21127 Cultural Heritage Information Ontology, OMG Ontology Definition Meta-Model Standard, or W3C Semantic Web Services Framework.