可以使用Netconf协议监视设备数据吗？

Question

I have been using the SNMP to read the object id's for monitoring the network devices. I have come across a protocol called "NetConf" which is used for network configuration. Netconf also provides some API's to read the network device data. Can I be able to achieve the monitoring of OID's which is done using the SNMP with the NETCONF? Instead of keeping multiple data models one model(YANG)for configuration and the other for monitoring(Mib module)

Answer 1

1. Theoretically, YES. But, Netconf is rather new though and not many people use it, whereas SNMP is a well established protocol to gather information about network devices, bandwidth, resource usage.

2. There are plenty of SNMP free tools out there that can display nice graphs, and a lot of commercial tools/NMS too.

3. There are few Netconf tools though and they are not as easy to work with as SNMP.

4. Also SNMP is widely supported by most HW/SW vendors and Netconf has very limited support.

Answer 2

There is a standard conversion of SNMP MIBs to YANG modules, documented as RFC6643, Translation of Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) MIB Modules to YANG Modules . The other way around is not possible, however.

Resulting YANG modules will use specialized extensions that expose OID information to an implementation that consumes a YANG module. These extensions may also freely be used in any module, even those you write on your own, if you import the module that is part of the mentioned RFC.

Finding an implementation that supports the extensions is the hard part as Andrew writes in his answer. I'm not aware of any such implementation.

I suggest you search for client/server implementations that explicitly say they support RFC6643.