Implementation of NETCONF Client in C++ Programming Language for Software Defined Networks

With the emerge of the software-defined networking paradigm, the Internet Engineering Task Force has standardized a new network configuration management protocol called NETCONF. Besides all features required for configuration management, the NETCONF is suitable for time-sensitive networking, since it provides event notification, validation capabilities, and filtering mechanisms. Knowing all of this, there must be a NETCONF client developed in any programming language running on any platform. However, there is no NETCONF client developed in C++ programming language for both Windows and Linux. In this article, such an implementation is described.