Hi Michal, I am not into NetConf, but is it not RPC calls? If so, you can probably use XEP-009: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0009.html
-Cheers! /Steffen On May 30, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vor...@vorner.cz> wrote: > Hello > > I'm working with protocol called NetConf (RFC 6241) now. The protocol can be > used to configure devices remotely over something more standardized than web > interface or ssh & command line utilities (which is good for people but not > for > automated scripts). > > The protocol uses XML messages and defines several transport layers to work on > top of (SSH, TLS socket, …). It seems like a reasonable idea to define a > transport over XMPP, which has several advantages (like you don't need 1000 > ssh > sessions to configure 1000 devices on your client, there's single point where > we > could define who is allowed to do the configuration, etc). > > Also, it could be used to configure software as well (XMPP bots, for example), > with possibly better UI than the ad-hoc commands. > > I brought the idea with my boss today that I'd like to do write the XEP and > some > experimental implementation. I got an answer in the meaning of „That sounds > like > a cool idea, though we need to finish the current project first“. > > So, I will probably find the time to write the proposal XEP some time in the > future. But if anyone is interested in a way to configure something remotely > (either a device or a software), please contact me, we may want to exchange > some > ideas. > > Thank you > > PS.: It seems the email didn't get through when sent from company email, so > I'm > retrying with a personal one (which is subscribed to the list). Please ignore > any possible duplicates. > > -- > BOFH Excuse #452: > Somebody ran the operating system through a spelling checker. > > Michal 'vorner' Vaner
