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The NETCONF protocol provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the configuration of network devices. It also can perform some monitoring functions. It uses an Extensible Markup Language (XML) based data encoding for the configuration data as well as the protocol messages. The NETCONF protocol operations are realized on top of a simple Remote Procedure Call (RPC) layer.

Netconf defines three transport mappings
  • SSH (RFC 4742), which is mandatory to implement

  • SOAP (RFC 4743)

  • BEEP (RFC 4744)


NETCONF can be conceptually partitioned into four layers:

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