Overview of NETCONF

network configuration protocol (netconf) is a communication mechanism used between a network management system (nms) and managed devices a network administrator can use netconf to add, modify, and delete configurations of network devices, and obtain the configurations and status of network devices network devices provide standard application programming interfaces (apis), through which the netconf management system can manage these devices using netconf for details about apis, see netconf yang api reference and check the attached files for more information