Mounting a NETCONF device

The OpenDaylight component responsible for connecting remote NETCONF devices is called the NETCONF southbound plugin, aka the netconf-connector. Creating an instance of the netconf-connector will connect a NETCONF device. The NETCONF device will be seen as a mount point in the MD-SAL, exposing the device configuration and operational data store and its capabilities. These mount points allow applications and remote users (over RESTCONF) to interact with the mounted devices.

The netconf-connector currently supports RFC-6241, RFC-5277, and RFC-6022.

The following recipe will explain how to connect a NETCONF device to OpenDaylight.