module ietf-netconf-client { yang-version 1.1; namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-netconf-client"; prefix ncc; import ietf-yang-types { prefix yang; reference "RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types"; } import ietf-tcp-client { prefix tcpc; reference "RFC DDDD: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } import ietf-tcp-server { prefix tcps; reference "RFC DDDD: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers"; } import ietf-ssh-client { prefix sshc; reference "RFC EEEE: YANG Groupings for SSH Clients and SSH Servers"; } import ietf-tls-client { prefix tlsc; reference "RFC FFFF: YANG Groupings for TLS Clients and TLS Servers"; } organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group"; contact "WG Web: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf WG List: NETCONF WG list Author: Kent Watsen "; description "This module contains a collection of YANG definitions for configuring NETCONF clients. Copyright (c) 2023 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to the license terms contained in, the Revised BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). This version of this YANG module is part of RFC HHHH (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcHHHH); see the RFC itself for full legal notices. The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119) (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here."; revision 2023-04-17 { description "Initial version"; reference "RFC HHHH: NETCONF Client and Server Models"; } // Features feature ssh-initiate { description "The 'ssh-initiate' feature indicates that the NETCONF client supports initiating SSH connections to NETCONF servers."; reference "RFC 6242: Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH)"; } feature tls-initiate { description "The 'tls-initiate' feature indicates that the NETCONF client supports initiating TLS connections to NETCONF servers."; reference "RFC 7589: Using the NETCONF Protocol over Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Mutual X.509 Authentication"; } feature ssh-listen { description "The 'ssh-listen' feature indicates that the NETCONF client supports opening a port to listen for incoming NETCONF server call-home SSH connections."; reference "RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home"; } feature tls-listen { description "The 'tls-listen' feature indicates that the NETCONF client supports opening a port to listen for incoming NETCONF server call-home TLS connections."; reference "RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home"; } feature central-netconf-client-supported { description "The 'central-netconf-client-supported' feature indicates that the server that implements this module supports the top-level 'netconf-client' node. This feature is needed as some servers may want to use features defined in this module, which requires this module to be implemented, without having to support the top-level 'netconf-client' node."; } // Groupings grouping netconf-client-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a NETCONF client without any consideration for how underlying transport sessions are established. This grouping currently does not define any nodes. It exists only so the model can be consistent with other 'client-server' models."; } grouping netconf-client-initiate-stack-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a NETCONF client 'initiate' protocol stack for a single connection."; choice transport { mandatory true; description "Selects between available transports."; case ssh { if-feature "ssh-initiate"; container ssh { description "Specifies IP and SSH specific configuration for the connection."; container tcp-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the TCP client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tcpc:tcp-client-grouping { refine "remote-port" { default "830"; description "The NETCONF client will attempt to connect to the IANA-assigned well-known port value for 'netconf-ssh' (830) if no value is specified."; } } } container ssh-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the SSH client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses sshc:ssh-client-grouping; } container netconf-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the NETCONF client parameters to avoid name collisions. This container does not define any nodes. It exists as a potential augmentation target by other modules."; uses ncc:netconf-client-grouping; } } } case tls { if-feature "tls-initiate"; container tls { description "Specifies IP and TLS specific configuration for the connection."; container tcp-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the TCP client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tcpc:tcp-client-grouping { refine "remote-port" { default "6513"; description "The NETCONF client will attempt to connect to the IANA-assigned well-known port value for 'netconf-tls' (6513) if no value is specified."; } } } container tls-client-parameters { must client-identity { description "NETCONF/TLS clients MUST pass some authentication credentials."; } description "A wrapper around the TLS client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tlsc:tls-client-grouping; } container netconf-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the NETCONF client parameters to avoid name collisions. This container does not define any nodes. It exists as a potential augmentation target by other modules."; uses ncc:netconf-client-grouping; } } } } } // netconf-client-initiate-stack-grouping grouping netconf-client-listen-stack-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a NETCONF client 'listen' protocol stack for a single connection. The 'listen' stack supports call home connections, as described in RFC 8071"; reference "RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home"; choice transport { mandatory true; description "Selects between available transports."; case ssh { if-feature "ssh-listen"; container ssh { description "SSH-specific listening configuration for inbound connections."; container tcp-server-parameters { description "A wrapper around the TCP server parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tcps:tcp-server-grouping { refine "local-port" { default "4334"; description "The NETCONF client will listen on the IANA- assigned well-known port for 'netconf-ch-ssh' (4334) if no value is specified."; } } } container ssh-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the SSH client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses sshc:ssh-client-grouping; } container netconf-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the NETCONF client parameters to avoid name collisions. This container does not define any nodes. It exists as a potential augmentation target by other modules."; uses ncc:netconf-client-grouping; } } } case tls { if-feature "tls-listen"; container tls { description "TLS-specific listening configuration for inbound connections."; container tcp-server-parameters { description "A wrapper around the TCP server parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tcps:tcp-server-grouping { refine "local-port" { default "4335"; description "The NETCONF client will listen on the IANA- assigned well-known port for 'netconf-ch-tls' (4335) if no value is specified."; } } } container tls-client-parameters { must client-identity { description "NETCONF/TLS clients MUST pass some authentication credentials."; } description "A wrapper around the TLS client parameters to avoid name collisions."; uses tlsc:tls-client-grouping; } container netconf-client-parameters { description "A wrapper around the NETCONF client parameters to avoid name collisions. This container does not define any nodes. It exists as a potential augmentation target by other modules."; uses ncc:netconf-client-grouping; } } } } } // netconf-client-listen-stack-grouping grouping netconf-client-app-grouping { description "A reusable grouping for configuring a NETCONF client application that supports both 'initiate' and 'listen' protocol stacks for a multiplicity of connections."; container initiate { if-feature "ssh-initiate or tls-initiate"; presence "Indicates that client-initiated connections have been configured. This statement is present so the mandatory descendant nodes do not imply that this node must be configured."; description "Configures client initiating underlying TCP connections."; list netconf-server { key "name"; min-elements 1; description "List of NETCONF servers the NETCONF client is to maintain simultaneous connections with."; leaf name { type string; description "An arbitrary name for the NETCONF server."; } container endpoints { description "Container for the list of endpoints."; list endpoint { key "name"; min-elements 1; ordered-by user; description "A user-ordered list of endpoints that the NETCONF client will attempt to connect to in the specified sequence. Defining more than one enables high-availability."; leaf name { type string; description "An arbitrary name for the endpoint."; } uses netconf-client-initiate-stack-grouping; } // list endpoint } // container endpoints container connection-type { description "Indicates the NETCONF client's preference for how the NETCONF connection is maintained."; choice connection-type { mandatory true; description "Selects between available connection types."; case persistent-connection { container persistent { presence "Indicates that a persistent connection is to be maintained."; description "Maintain a persistent connection to the NETCONF server. If the connection goes down, immediately start trying to reconnect to the NETCONF server, using the reconnection strategy. This connection type minimizes any NETCONF server to NETCONF client data-transfer delay, albeit at the expense of holding resources longer."; } } case periodic-connection { container periodic { presence "Indicates that a periodic connection is to be maintained."; description "Periodically connect to the NETCONF server. This connection type decreases resource utilization, albeit with increased delay in NETCONF server to NETCONF client interactions. The NETCONF client should close the underlying TCP connection upon completing planned activities. Connections are established at the same start time regardless how long the previous connection stayed open. In the case that the previous connection is still active, establishing a new connection is NOT RECOMMENDED."; leaf period { type uint16; units "minutes"; default "60"; description "Duration of time between periodic connections."; } leaf anchor-time { type yang:date-and-time { // constrained to minute-level granularity pattern '[0-9]{4}-(1[0-2]|0[1-9])-(0[1-9]|[1-2]' + '[0-9]|3[0-1])T(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[' + '0-5][0-9]:00(Z|[\+\-]((1[0-3]|0[0-9]):' + '([0-5][0-9])|14:00))?'; } description "Designates a timestamp before or after which a series of periodic connections are determined. The periodic connections occur at a whole multiple interval from the anchor time. If an 'anchor-time' is not provided, then the server may implicitly set it to the time when this configuraton is applied (e.g., on boot). For example, for an anchor time is 15 minutes past midnight and a period interval of 24 hours, then a periodic connection will occur 15 minutes past midnight everyday."; } leaf idle-timeout { type uint16; units "seconds"; default 180; // three minutes description "Specifies the maximum number of seconds that a NETCONF session may remain idle. A NETCONF session will be dropped if it is idle for an interval longer then this number of seconds. If set to zero, then the NETCONF client will never drop a session because it is idle."; } } } } } container reconnect-strategy { description "The reconnection strategy directs how a NETCONF client reconnects to a NETCONF server, after discovering its connection to the server has dropped, even if due to a reboot. The NETCONF client starts with the specified endpoint and tries to connect to it max-attempts times before trying the next endpoint in the list (round robin)."; leaf start-with { type enumeration { enum first-listed { description "Indicates that reconnections should start with the first endpoint listed."; } enum last-connected { description "Indicates that reconnections should start with the endpoint last connected to. If no previous connection has ever been established, then the first endpoint configured is used. NETCONF clients SHOULD be able to remember the last endpoint connected to across reboots."; } enum random-selection { description "Indicates that reconnections should start with a random endpoint."; } } default "first-listed"; description "Specifies which of the NETCONF server's endpoints the NETCONF client should start with when trying to connect to the NETCONF server."; } leaf max-wait { type uint16 { range "1..max"; } units "seconds"; default "5"; description "Specifies the amount of time in seconds after which, if the connection is not established, an endpoint connection attempt is considered unsuccessful."; } leaf max-attempts { type uint8 { range "1..max"; } default "3"; description "Specifies the number times the NETCONF client tries to connect to a specific endpoint before moving on to the next endpoint in the list (round robin)."; } } } // netconf-server } // initiate container listen { if-feature "ssh-listen or tls-listen"; presence "Indicates that client-listening ports have been configured. This statement is present so the mandatory descendant nodes do not imply that this node must be configured."; description "Configures the client to accept call-home TCP connections."; leaf idle-timeout { type uint16; units "seconds"; default "180"; // three minutes description "Specifies the maximum number of seconds that a NETCONF session may remain idle. A NETCONF session will be dropped if it is idle for an interval longer than this number of seconds. If set to zero, then the server will never drop a session because it is idle."; } list endpoint { key "name"; min-elements 1; description "List of endpoints to listen for NETCONF connections."; leaf name { type string; description "An arbitrary name for the NETCONF listen endpoint."; } uses netconf-client-listen-stack-grouping; } // endpoint } // listen } // netconf-client-app-grouping // Protocol accessible node for clients that implement this module. container netconf-client { if-feature central-netconf-client-supported; uses netconf-client-app-grouping; description "Top-level container for NETCONF client configuration."; } }