Tail-f Systems, a developer of XML-based network management solutions, announced Tuesday the completion of NETCONF interoperability testing with Juniper Networks Inc.’s (JNPR). “The manual configuration of individual network devices increases the risk of fat finger configuration errors. The automation of network configuration will enable policy implementation and enforcement and greatly reduce the opportunity of introducing errors into the configuration files."
The NETCONF protocol provides management applications with a mechanism to manipulate the configuration of network elements. NETCONF uses XML for encoding configuration data and protocol messages and includes powerful capabilities such as transaction safe configuration changes, pre-validation of candidate configurations, and rollbacks. These capabilities ensure configuration changes are made consistently across network elements, and reduce the risk of configuration errors that can cause network outages.
Through this interoperability testing with JUNOS, Tail-f has validated the implementation of the NETCONF protocol in its ConfM product for basic operations like manipulating data, and for more advanced capabilities, such as committing and rolling back candidate configurations.
