NETCONF is an IETF network
management protocol that
provides an administrator or network engineer with a secure way to configure a firewall, router, switch or other network
device.
The NETCONF protocol is based upon remote procedure call (RPC), a
client/server protocol that allows one program to request a service from another program without
having to understand network details. NETCOF was designed to make up for the short-comings of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
and Command-Line Interface (CLI)
protocols as they apply to the configuration of network devices.
NETCONF, which is an abbreviation for “network configuration,” was developed in the NETCONF
working group and published in December 2006 as RFC 4741. The protocol
was revised in June 2011 and published as RFC 6241.
This was last updated in March 2013
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