Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(33)SRE

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The NETCONF Access for Configuration over BEEP feature allows you to enable either the NETCONF 
server or the NETCONF client to initiate a connection, thus supporting large networks of intermittently 
connected devices and those devices that must reverse the management connection where there are 
firewalls and network address translators (NATs). 

The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) defines a simple mechanism through which a network 
device can be managed, configuration data information can be retrieved, and new configuration data can 
be uploaded and manipulated. NETCONF uses Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based data 
encoding for the configuration data and protocol messages. 

Configuration information is included in the “Network Configuration Protocol” module of the Cisco IOS 
Network Management Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

at the following URL:

The following sections provide information about this feature:

Prerequisites for NETCONF

Restrictions for NETCONF

Information About NETCONF

How to Configure NETCONF

Configuration Examples for NETCONF

For a complete list of features included in the “Configuring NETCONF” module, see the Feature 
Information Table located toward the end of the module.

Command reference information is included in the Cisco IOS Network Management Command 
Reference, Release 12.2SR, at the following URL: