Dynamic management of network environments

An method comprising:

• collecting information on one or more network devices, wherein each of the one or more network devices have one or more attributes;
• storing the collected information in a database;
• mapping the stored information to abstracted values, wherein the abstracted values comprise one or more abstracted device types and one or more abstracted device attributes corresponding to the abstracted device types;
• presenting the mapped information to a user for selection and inclusion into a template, wherein the presented mapped information is independent of a location of the one or more network devices and a detailed resource characteristic of the one or more attributes;
• creating, responsive to the user input, one or more templates comprising one or more abstracted values;
• activating, responsive to the user input, one or more created templates;
• and
• accessing one or more network devices based on the activated one or more templates.