Re: use of netconf to configure Unix systems

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Andy Bierman wrote:
>   
> > Randy Presuhn wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi -
> > >
> > > I'm intrigued by the concern that netconf should be 
> > >       
> > assigned a Unix privileged port.
> >     
> > > Does this mean that someone has or is developing a netconf 
> > >       
> > data model to configure
> >     
> > > Unix hosts or applications?  Are there other reasons for 
> > >       
> > running a netconf server
> >     
> > > on a Unix host?
> > >   
> > >       
> > Perhaps somebody is already implementing a "NETCONF to Unix 
> > Config file" 
> > gateway,
> > running on Fedora4.  Netconf for unix is a very real possibility.
> >
> >     
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I can think of no conceivable reason someone would seriously
> want to use Netconf for remote UNIX configuration.  For desktop
> and server end systems, WBEM, WS-Management, and WSDM are the
> plausible and _deployed_ solutions.  The DMTF DMI and DMTF CIM
> models have been used for a decade to configure UNIX, MacOS,
> Windows, and Linux systems.
>
> Give me one technical reason that shifting from existing open
> standard management protocols (that are already deployed and
> already support interoperable event subscriptions and event
> notifications) to Netconf would be a good idea?
>   

People can experiment with whatever they want.
I still use ASCII config files to manage most linux services.
I guess I'm the only one still doing it the old-fashioned way.

> Cheers,
> - Ira
>   

Andy


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