Connecting Netopeer-cli to Netconf server (LINC switch)

[ak.madh...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I started looking at netopeer documentation i.e., at https://code.google.com/p/netopeer/. I have a LINC (OFswitch) which can talk to the OpenFlow controller. After having played with starting a network topology, I would like to learn more on Netconf, which actually gives me details like running configuration, edit & delete the configuration of network devices. I have few questions in my mind:

1. If my understanding is correct, Can I create a netconf session between netopeer/netopeer-cli and in-built netconf server at LINC switch? For your information, I am able to install libnetconf and netopeer-cli without any issues.

2. By the way, where can I edit connection details at netopeer-cli for initiating connection to netconf-server at LINC switch like host name,username, port# and pwd, to name a few.

3. When I attempt to start netopeer-cli, I get the following error:

[odluser@odl-ofswitch cli]$ ./netopeer-cli
./netopeer-cli: error while loading shared libraries: libnetconf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But, I could see that libraries related to libnetconf is already installed at
[odluser@odl-ofswitch cli]$ cd /usr/local/lib/
[odluser@odl-ofswitch lib]$ ls
libnetconf.a libnetconf.so libnetconf.so.0.7.99 libpcap.so libpcap.so.1.2.1
libnetconf.la libnetconf.so.0 libpcap.a libpcap.so.1 pkgconfig

If the above is not the right way to start netopeer-cli, could you suggest how to start at the right way?

4. I believe installing libnetconf libraries and netopeer-cli will suffice in-order to initiate the connection to netconf-server at LINC switch using SSH.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Madhusudhan

[hemants...@gmail.com]

Hi Madhusudhan,

I want to start communication between netopeer and opendaylight controller. I have installed netopeer on my machine. I am following openDayLight wiki page https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Controller:Config:Examples:Netconf#Using_netopeer_netconf_server_instead_of_a_real_device for this. I am not getting what to do after section "Using ODL's netconf server as mountpoint". Can you please help me what changes are required to be made in .xml files.

Thanks;
Hemant