NETCONF and YANG for engineers

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

NETCONF and YANG training course details

Network engineers.

Network management technologies

1 day

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

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.