Managing SamKnows probes using NETCONF

Network Configuration (NETCONF) is being considered by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as one of the control protocol candidates within the Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance (LMAP) framework. We demonstrate the possibility of managing LMAP Measurement Agent (MA)s using the NETCONF protocol. We have deployed a NETCONF server on one such MA: a SamKnows measurement probe. The server is built around the libnetconf library, and has been heavily optimized to accommodate it to the limitations of the SamKnows hardware.