Cisco Cisco Elastic Services Controller 1.1 Developer's Guide

1 Introduction

The NETCONF API of ESC is to let the northbound clients communicate with ESC using the NETCONF
protocol.

1.1 Using NETCONF

The easiest way to interact with the NETCONF agent in ConfD is to use a small python based program
called netconf-console that ships with ConfD. In an ESC 1.0 VM, the netconf-console is located in:

/opt/confd-5.2.1/bin/netconf-console

There are the following operations supported by using netconf-console:

1.1.1 Get configuration

# netconf-console --user=admin --password=admin --get-

config -x “/esc_datamodel”

1.1.2 Get non-configurable data

# netconf-console --user=admin --password=admin --get -x

“/esc_datamodel/opdata”

1.1.3 Subscribe ESC notifications

# netconf-console --user=admin --password=admin --create-

subscription=escEvent

1.1.4 Make RPC calls

# netconf-console --user=admin --password=admin --rpc

rpc.xml

1.1.5 Push in configurations

# netconf-console --user=admin --password=admin --edit-

config cfg.xml

1.2 ConfD CLI

ConfD has a CLI to enable user to read, write configurations and check operational data.

The path of ConfD CLI in ESC is in:

/opt/confd-5.2.1/bin/confd_cli

1.3 Change ConfD Admin Password

ConfD admin Password can be changed using ConfD CLI.

1) /opt/confd-5.2.1/bin/confd_cli -u admin