Re: [Netconf] Netconf Light or Netconf for constrained devices

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Sat, 31 March 2012 09:38 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] Netconf Light or Netconf for constrained devices
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:53:54PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> 
> But I'll play along -- I already did this and it got ignored:
> 
>   - get-config (with subtree filtering mandatory)
>   - edit-config
>   - close-session
>   - lock
>   - unlock
> 
> There is my minimum set that provides CM functionality.
> One can perform CRUD operations safely on a device with these operations.

On constrained devices, you do not need subtree filtering nor do you
have the resources to implement edit-config. But valuable to know that
your requirements differ from the -00 requirements as well.

/js

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