User Guide

Admin Tasks

Admin page provides user interface to create user accounts, device profiles and collections.

Creating User Account (optional):

Creating user account is optional as you can use default guest/guest login, however creating user account can be userful if you have a shared yang-explorer installtion.

• Click Admin button in YangExplorer
• Login as admin (user: admin, password: admin)
• On admin page, click Users link
• On User Profiles page, click Add user link (top-right)
• Add user account info and click Save (Warning: passwords are transmitted in plaintext)

Creating Device Profiles:

Device profiles can be created to quickly populate device info from drop-down list in yang-explorer.

Note: You can use default user login (guest/guest)

• Click Admin button in YangExplorer
• Login login as guest or your own login
• On admin page, click Device profiles link
• On User Profiles page, click Add device profiles link (top-right)
• Add device credentials (device login info is not secured)
  • Add netconf credentials (Required for connecting to netconf server)
  • Add restconf credentials (Not used currently)
• click Save

Creating Collection:

Collections can be used to save user generated RPCs on the server so that saved RPCs can be re-used.

Note: You can use default user login (guest/guest)

• Click Admin button in YangExplorer
• Login login as guest or your own login
• On admin page, click Collections link
• On User Profiles page, click Add collection link (top-right)
  • Provide collection name
  • Select User from drop-down box
  • Provide description for this collection
• click Save

Work Flow

Login:

YangExplorer uses user accounts to manage workspaces. You can create a user account using admin page (See 5.2.1 Creating User Account)

You can use guest login (guest/guest) or newly created account.

Exploring Models:

Adding/Deleing Yang Models:

• Click Manage tab
• Click Upload button
  • Click Browse and select models to upload
  • Click Upload
  • Clear button can be used clear models in upload window
• Click Subscribe & Un-subscribe buttons to make selected models visible/invisible in exploerer area
• Click Delete button to delete selected models from user account

Creating RPCs:

You can explore yang models in explorer area (left pane) using tree navigation:

• Value and Operation columns in explorer area are editable.
• Explore model in explorer area by navigating model tree
• Click value cell next to data node (leaf, container etc)
• Edit values
  • Select <get> and <get-config> for get, get-config netconf operations
  • Select <rpc> for RPCs
  • Enter data values for edit-config operation
  • Use Reset button on top-right bar to reset data in the model tree
• Click RPC button

Executing RPCs:

• Create RPC using 5.3.4
• Populate Device info in Device Settings Tab
• Click Run

Saving RPCs to Collection:

• Create RPC using 5.3.4
• Click Save

Loading saved RPC:

• Click Collections Tab
• Double click on the RPCs title you want to load.