Network element configuration, information retrieval and event notification are the major tasks in network management. Network configurations were till now done using either the command line interface or SNMP or CORBA. NETCONF or network configuration protocol (RFC 6241) came as an alternative and more preferred mechanism for network configuration. It provides a document oriented (XML/YANG) approach to configure and retrieve network element configuration. It also provides locking mechanism.

This seminar will cover:

1. NETCONF protocol.

2. NETCONF  vs SNMP.

3. NETCONF datastores – running, candidate and startup.

4. NETCONF operations.

5. Capabilities in NETCONF

6. NETCONF  over SSH (RFC 6242)

7. Introduction to events in netconf.

8. Introduction to Yang data model