Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data pertaining to a performance of devices included as part of a network, obtaining second data pertaining to rules regarding the performance of the devices, comparing the first data and the second data, identifying, based on the comparing, an inconsistency between a first data item included in the first data and a second data item included in the second data, resulting in a first identification, identifying, based on the first identification, a change to be enacted to a configuration of at least a first device included in the devices, resulting in a second identification, and causing, based on the second identification, the change to be enacted to the configuration of the at least a first device. Other embodiments are disclosed.