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Chapter 4

IoT System Management with


NETCONF-YANG

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


Outline

• Need for IoT Systems Management


• SNMP
• Network Operator Requirements
• NETCONF
• YANG
• IoT Systems Management with NETCONF-YANG

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


Need for IoT Systems Management

• Automating Configuration
• Monitoring Operational & Statistical Data
• Improved Reliability
• System Wide Configurations
• Multiple System Configurations
• Retrieving & Reusing Configurations

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

• SNMP is a well-known and widely used


network management protocol that allows
monitoring and configuring network devices
such as routers, switches, servers, printers, etc.
• SNMP component include
• Network Management Station (NMS)
• Managed Device
• Management Information Base (MIB)
• SNMP Agent that runs on the device

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


Limitations of SNMP

• SNMP is stateless in nature and each SNMP request contains all the
information to process the request. The application needs to be intelligent
to manage the device.
• SNMP is a connectionless protocol which uses UDP as the transport protocol,
making it unreliable as there was no support for acknowledgement of
requests.
• MIBs often lack writable objects without which device configuration is not
possible using SNMP.
• It is difficult to differentiate between configuration and state data in MIBs.
• Retrieving the current configuration from a device can be difficult with
SNMP.
• Earlier versions of SNMP did not have strong security features.

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


Network Operator Requirements

• Ease of use • Configuration validation


• Distinction between configuration and state data • Configuration database schemas
• Fetch configuration and state data separately • Comparing configurations
• Configuration of the network as a whole • Role-based access control
• Configuration transactions across devices • Consistency of access control lists:
• Configuration deltas • Multiple configuration sets
• Dump and restore configurations • Support for both data-oriented and task-
oriented access control

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


NETCONF

• Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) is a session-based network management protocol.


NETCONF allows retrieving state or configuration data and manipulating configuration data on
network devices

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


NETCONF

• NETCONF works on SSH transport protocol.


• Transport layer provides end-to-end connectivity and ensure reliable delivery of messages.
• NETCONF uses XML-encoded Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) for framing request and
response messages.
• The RPC layer provides mechanism for encoding of RPC calls and notifications.
• NETCONF provides various operations to retrieve and edit configuration data from
network devices.
• The Content Layer consists of configuration and state data which is XML-encoded.
• The schema of the configuration and state data is defined in a data modeling language
called YANG.
• NETCONF provides a clear separation of the configuration and state data.
• The configuration data resides within a NETCONF configuration datastore on the server.

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


YANG

• YANG is a data modeling language used to model configuration and state data
manipulated by the NETCONF protocol
• YANG modules contain the definitions of the configuration data, state data, RPC calls that
can be issued and the format of the notifications.
• YANG modules defines the data exchanged between the NETCONF client and server.
• A module comprises of a number of 'leaf' nodes which are organized into a hierarchical
tree structure.
• The 'leaf' nodes are specified using the 'leaf' or 'leaf-list' constructs.
• Leaf nodes are organized using 'container' or 'list' constructs.
• A YANG module can import definitions from other modules.
• Constraints can be defined on the data nodes, e.g. allowed values.
• YANG can model both configuration data and state data using the 'config' statement.

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


YANG Module Example

• This YANG module is a YANG version of the toaster


MIB
• The toaster YANG module begins with the header
information followed by identity declarations
which define various bread types.
• The leaf nodes (‘toasterManufacturer’,
‘toasterModelNumber’ and oasterStatus’) are
defined in the ‘toaster’ container.
• Each leaf node definition has a type and optionally
a description and default value.
• The module has two RPC definitions (‘make-toast’
and ‘cancel-toast’).

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015


IoT Systems Management with NETCONF-YANG

• Management System
• Management API
• Transaction Manager
• Rollback Manager
• Data Model Manager
• Configuration Validator
• Configuration Database
• Configuration API
• Data Provider API

Book website: http://www.internet-of-things-book.com Bahga & Madisetti, © 2015

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