NETCONF and YANG

Extreme SLX-OS provides support for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and the YANG data modeling language. Using Extensible Markup Language (XML) constructs, the NETCONF protocol provides the ability to manipulate configuration data and view state data modeled in YANG. NETCONF uses a client/server architecture in which remote procedure calls (RPCs) manipulate the modeled data across a secure transport, such as Secure Shell version 2 (SSHv2).

NETCONF provides mechanisms through which you can perform the following operations:

Manage network devices
Retrieve configuration data and operational state data
Upload and manipulate configurations

NETCONF is partitioned conceptually into four layers.