A method and system to generate a CLI command designed to output a configuration dump of a networked device is described. The method and system allows generation of a command that discovers the state value parameters of the device, and from those discovered state value parameters constructs a CLI command script that, when executed, sets the networked device back to the configuration existing when the command was initially executed. The method and system provides templates and routines that may be customized by the user to form a command specific to the networked device.