NETCONF and YANG for engineers

Description

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.