Challenges to the New Network Management Protocol: NETCONF

Author

Ji Huang ; Zhang, Bin ; Li, Guohui ; Gao, Xuesong ; Li, Yan

Author_Institution

Pattern Recognition & Intell. Syst. Lab., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun. (BUPT), Beijing

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

7-8 March 2009

Firstpage

832

Lastpage

836

Abstract

In 2006, the IETF released its latest effort, NETCONF, a brand new network management protocol, which is based on the XML encoding method. The NETCONF protocol is thought to be able to meet the requirement of configuration management which SNMP fails to do well. The NETCONF protocol also performs better in other fields such as the efficiency, more flexible operations, etc. But, as a new protocol, NETCONF is not perfect either and it also has some shortcomings in several aspects. In this paper, some common problems and challenges in the field of network management which NETCONF has not efficiently solved are reviewed and a few pieces of suggestion will be given out.

Keywords

XML; authorisation; computer network management; protocols; NETCONF network management protocol; XML encoding method; access control mechanism; computer network management; configuration management; Computer network management; Encoding; Information retrieval; Monitoring; Network servers; Technology management; Telecommunication network management; Transport protocols; Transportation; XML; challenges; management; netconf; network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009. ETCS '09. First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3581-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETCS.2009.189

Filename

4958894