We are happy to announce the release of a new open-source tool in the NETCONF universe.
Advanced Netconf explorer is a graphical explorer for YANG models supported by a NETCONF device or service orchestrator. Features include:
- Retrieving all YANG models supported by a device or orchestrator using the NETCONF monitoring standard.
- Parsing the YANG models (using ODL yangtools) and outputting a tree with all the nodes, which the user can expand / collapse.
- Filtering the model tree by module name and searching the names and descriptions of the YANG nodes in it (e.g. “neighbor count” or “bgp” “neighbor count”).
- Downloading a ZIP-Archive of all YANG-models supported by the device or orchestrator.
- Showing details and generating metadata for a YANG node, e.g. the description, XPath, a subtree-filter (for NETCONF development), MAAGIC paths (for NSO development) etc.
- IOS XR Telemetry support tools to edit sensor groups and show live data using GRPC.
- Browsing and searching live (operational) data YANG models.
- NETCONF console to send raw NETCONF commands for debugging and development purposes.
- ANC is the basis of the explorer and offers a reusable abstraction for most of the features of NETCONF 1.1 packaged as a Java library which can be used as a stand-alone NETCONF client library.
We have primarily released it to work with NETCONF-enabled devices (like IOS XR) directly, however of course you can use it with orchestrators like NSO too.
Finally code and instructions are here: https://github.com/cisco-ie/anx
