2. Netconf configuration protocol

2.1 Introduction

Netconf is the potential successor to the SNMP (v1, v2c, v3) and CLI (command line interface) protocols, both widely used in IP network supervision and well known to network administrators. It takes advantage of the best of both protocols, and is also open to recent technologies revolving around the XML tagging language.

SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol

• From SNMP, it retains, among other things, the tree-like, hierarchical data model that enables network management data to be classified by category and sub-category: network interfaces, routing, system, etc. It also has the same scaling objectives as SNMP, enabling the management of large numbers of network devices, as well as security,...