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I like the idea of OpenConfig, but some challenges I have run into are that: 1. The models specify data formats in machine readable form, but the semantics are
by musicale 5y ago
I like the idea of OpenConfig, but some challenges I have run into are that:
1. The models specify data formats in machine readable form, but the semantics are still specified in English.
2. In my experience, semantic complexity and variation across devices bubbles up to the application layer, effectively requiring custom code for each device (or at best each vendor.)
3. Many network devices do not implement OpenConfig.
4. In spite of abundant evidence to the contrary (including the above) it has been frustratingly hard to convince some people (and equipment vendors) I've worked with that YANG is not a panacea that enables network and device management software to automatically know how to configure and manage new devices. (For some reason protobufs/gNMI/gNOI didn't seem to inspire the same madness.)