[j-nsp] NETCONF in Junos

Matt Bernstein mb+jnsp at bernstein.org.uk
Mon Dec 21 04:04:36 EST 2015


On 21/12/2015 08:57, Martin T wrote:
> Thanks! So as I understand, the general idea is that it doesn't matter
> much for Junos if the command is executed in the CLI or from the
> remote(management server) NETCONF manager, i.e. Junos is basically
> built around the NETCONF? However, local calls(for example if one
> executes "show version" in Junos CLI) do not travel internally over
> SSH as remote calls would, do they?
Yes. the Junos CLI can itself be considered a (really nice) NETCONF 
wrapper. It makes me idly wish other vendors' NETCONF implementations 
were good enough that the Junos CLI could be used on them!

I doubt the CLI uses SSH internally, but I suppose it wouldn't really 
matter if it did.

Matt


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