NETCONF and RESTCONF

The content of NETCONF operations is well-formed XML. Most content is related to network management.

The base protocol defines the following protocol operations:

Operation	Description
	Retrieve running configuration and device state information
	Retrieve all or part of a specified configuration datastore
	Edit a configuration datastore by creating, deleting, merging or replacing content
	Copy an entire configuration datastore to another configuration datastore
	Delete a configuration datastore
	Lock an entire configuration datastore of a device
	Release a configuration datastore lock previously obtained with the operation
	Request graceful termination of a NETCONF session
	Force the termination of a NETCONF session

The NETCONF messages layer provides a simple, transport-independent framing mechanism for encoding

• RPC invocations ( messages),
• RPC results ( messages), and
• event notifications ( messages).

 RESTCONF Overview

• A REST like protocol running over HTTP for accessing data defined in YANG using datastores defined in NETCONF.
•  The REST-like API is not intended to replace NETCONF, but rather provide an additional simplified interface that follows REST-like principles and is compatible with a resource-oriented device abstraction.