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Why would I want this rather than say WebServices/SOAP?
by algesten 10y ago
Why would I want this rather than say WebServices/SOAP?
- ahoka 10y agoApples and oranges. Yang is for describing O&M interfaces, AFAIK you can even use it to generate CLI commands for you appliance.
- bewo001 10y agoSome historical background might be helpful: to configure network devices, the IETF specified SNMP in the 1990s. Cisco only did a read-only implementation of it, as their configuration concept did not align with SNMP very well (a change of a single SNMP variable gets effective immediately, which is cumbersome in cases where several variables need to be changed in unison). So network operators resorted to 'expect' scripting of the routers' CLI, which was a brittle and ugly solution. Netconf/YANG was done to replace that.
- algesten 10y agoGreat thanks! Got it.