lighty.io NETCONF Device Simulator (& Libraries)

A lightweight project that provides:

• NETCONF Device Libraries for building custom NETCONF devices
• Examples of NETCONF Device Simulators to demonstrate, how these libraries can be used to create custom NETCONF devices

NETCONF Device Libraries

lighty-netconf-device is a NETCONF device library for creating custom NETCONF devices. With the provided NETCONF device builder, you can create your own device. This device can be built with the use of builder switches for adding custom YANG models, custom request processors & more.

Build & Run

• Build the project with Java 21:

mvn clean install

• The NETCONF Device Library build is located at:

lighty-netconf-device\target\lighty-netconf-device-22.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

• The build & run procedures for the example devices are described in each device's README.

Example NETCONF Device Simulators

This tool contains 5 device examples, to demonstrate the usage of the NETCONF Device Library for creating custom devices:

• lighty Actions Device
• lighty Network Topology Device
• lighty Notifications Device
• lighty Toaster Device
• lighty Toaster Multiple Devices

Read about the background of this project here.

Known Issues

Problem: Creating multiple simulators takes a long time.
Delay can be caused by Random Number Generation /dev/random.
Solution: Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random by passing it as system property
-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom or modify file $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security
by changing property securerandom.source=file:/dev/random to securerandom.source=file:/dev/urandom.