NETCONF and YANG training course description

An introduction to NETCONF and YANG. The course progresses from what they are, why they are needed, and how to configure them onto a more detailed analysis of how NETCONF works and how to read YANG models.

What will you learn

• Recognise the limits and problems of SNMP and the CLI.
• Describe the relationship between NETCONF and YANG.
• Configure NETCONF on network devices.
• Use NETCONF to configure devices.
• Read YANG models.

NETCONF and YANG training course details

NETCONF and YANG training course content

• What are NETCONF and YANG?

Network management and configuration issues. What is NETCONF? What is YANG? Protocols, data models, architecture.
Hands on Configuring NETCONF on network devices, using NETCONF.

• NETCONF

NETCONF layers, Secure transport: SSH, Messages: rpc, Operations, Content. Base operations: <get>, <get-config>, <edit-config>, <copy-config>, <delete-config>, <lock>,<unlock>, <close-session>, <kill-session>
NETCONF datastores: :candidate, :startup, running.
Hands on Retrieving a configuration with NETCONF, Editing a configuration with NETCONF.

• NETCONF more details

NETCONF traffic flows, NETCONF capabilities, hello, capabilities exchange., Filtering data, atomic transactions, validating configurations.
Hands on Using NETCONF.

• YANG

YANG models, IETF standard YANG models, tree diagrams, an example: YANG interface management, Module header, Imports and includes, Containers, Lists, leaves, Data types, typedef, Instance data, XML.
Hands on Reading YANG data models, creating a configuration instance.

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