How Use NETCONF NED (Noob Question)

[AJ Cruz]

I'm going through the NSO training on Cisco Digital Learning and it's not clear to me how to use the NETCONF NED.

It would seem to me the NETCONF NED would be installed by default, but when I do a show packages I get the following:

admin@ncs# show packages package package-version
                   PACKAGE  
NAME               VERSION  
----------------------------
cisco-asa-cli-6.6  6.6.10   
cisco-ios-cli-3.8  3.8.0.1  
cisco-nx-cli-3.0   3.0.0.3 

Those are all CLI NEDs, not NETCONF, correct?

How do I use NETCONF with a device?

I've added a Nexus 9000v:

admin@ncs# show devices list
NAME   ADDRESS          DESCRIPTION  NED ID   ADMIN STATE  
---------------------------------------------------------
NXOS1  192.168.211.101  -            netconf  unlocked 

But it looks to me like no YANG modules are loaded, I'm guessing because the NED is absent?:

admin@ncs# show devices device NXOS1 module 
% No entries found.

Not sure what I'm missing.

Thanks.

[snovello · Accepted solution]

You need to create a Netconf NED for that device see doc on NED builder

https://developer.cisco.com/docs/nso/guides/#!netconf-ned-builder

[AJ Cruz]

Thanks, I went through this against a Nexus 9000v and got:

admin@ncs(config-project-cisco-nx/1.0)# fetch-module-list 
Error: Device does not support ietf-netconf-monitoring

I think I'll stick with the CLI NEDs, not sure why using NETCONF is such a pain. You'd think a Cisco product would be able to communicate with another Cisco product pretty easily.