Dier Michal, I'm interested in this activity in terms of machine-to-machine communication/configuration over XMPP.
Regards, Yusuke (2013-05-30 16:04), Michal 'vorner' Vaner 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.
