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Prerequisites for Establishing a NETCONF Server Session

The NETCONF server communicates with client applications within the context of a NETCONF session. The server and client explicitly establish a connection and session before exchanging data, and close the session and connection when they are finished. Client applications access the NETCONF server using the SSH protocol and use the standard SSH authentication mechanism.

Before you establish a NETCONF server session, ensure that:

The NETCONF server and client applications comply with RFC 4742, Using the NETCONF Configuration Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH), available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4742.txt.
SSH Software is installed on the configuration management server.

You must enable NETCONF over SSH protocol on port 830 of the device running NETCONF server. To do this, enter the set system services netconf ssh command at the command line interface of the NETCONF server device.



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user@host# set system services netconf ssh

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