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A usage case of the NETCONF infrastructure is the get and set controllers on a device. These operations are defined in an ONOS Behaviour, in our case the NetconfControllerConfig.java, that implements ControllerConfig general behaviour. When you have a Behaviour you need the To do the operations on the device you need, in the Behaviour, the NetconfController, which you can obtainthorugh the DriverHandler. The NetconfController instance now gives you access to all the device or a single device. Once you have the device you are interested in based upon the deviceId you provide you can get the NetconfSession object to comunicate with the device and do operations on the physical device, getting the configuration in case of the get controllers or setting a pre-built new one for the setControllers. XmlConfigParser.java offers a method to extract the wanted information from an XML configuration received from the device and another method to produce the correct XML to set one or more controller on a specific device.
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