Establishing a NETCONF session Up to 16 concurrent sessions can be established with a NETCONF server. A session times out if it is idle for 30 minutes.
Retrieving configuration data You can retrieve configuration data using either the <get-config> or <get> RPC. RFC 4741, NETCONF Configuration Protocol, specifies that the <get-config> RPC returns only configuration data while the <get> RPC returns configuration data and operational state data.
Retrieving operational data In the Extreme SLX-OS implementation of NETCONF, two mechanisms are used for retrieving operational data: Extreme custom RPCs and custom actions.
Editing the configuration All configuration editing is done using the merge or delete operations of the <edit-config> RPC. The create and replace operations are not supported.
Managing the configuration Extreme SLX-OS provides the custom <bna-config-cmd> PRC for performing any of the following operations: