NETCONF Call Home

Fredrik Jansson
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Typical NSO Setup • Router-1 – 10.0.10.2
• Router-2 – 10.0.10.4
• Router-3 – lab-2-gw.cisco.com
NSO • Router-4
• ...

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 • Device behind NAT
• No outside access
• Unknown address
Not always that • Don’t know when/where
easy... the device is plugged in
• IP Address Changing
• Mobile Devices

• DHCP

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 • RFC 8071
• RESTCONF Call Home
Meet NETCONF
• SSH & TLS
Call Home!
• “Only TCP Changing

Direction”

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Difference
NETCONF NETCONF Call Home

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 • NSO & ConfD
• NETCONF Call Home

What About Cisco? • ConfD 6.7.1

• NSO 5.1

• IOS XE Backlog

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How does NSO know what device it is?

• router-1
ssh AAB
NSO • router-2
ssh CCA
SSH • ...

CALL_HOME_DEVICE_CONNECTED
CALL_HOME_UNKNOWN_DEVICE

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This Must Be Super Complicated? - Not Really!

NSO NSO ConfD

<netconf-call-home> devices device router-1 m = maapi.Maapi()

<enabled>true</enabled> local-user admin m.netconf_ssh_call_home("10.0.10.2”, 4334)

<transport> ssh host-key ssh-rsa

<tcp> key-data "AAA.."

<ip>0.0.0.0</ip> !

<port>4334</port> authgroup default

</tcp> device-type netconf ned-id netconf

</transport> state admin-state call-home

</netconf-call-home> !

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 {

'type': CALL_HOME_UNKNOWN_DEVICE,
'ip4': '10.117.108.147’,
'port': 50271,

NSO Events 'ssh_host_key’: AAB..,

CALL_HOME_UNKNOWN_DEVICE 'ssh_key_alg’: 1,
...

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 {

'type': CALL_HOME_DEVICE_CONNECTED,
'device': 'router-1’,
'ip4': '10.117.108.147’,

NSO Events 'port’: 17205,

CALL_HOME_DEVICE_CONNECTED 'ssh_host_key’: CCB..,

'ssh_key_alg’: 1,

...
}

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Demo

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