Establishing A Junos Xml Management Protocol Session - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.3 - XML MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL GUIDE 6-30-2010 Manual

Junos 10.3 Junos XML Management Protocol Guide

Establishing a Junos XML Management Protocol Session

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Requests operational or configuration information, or changes configuration
4.
information, as described in "Requesting Information" on page 61 and "Changing
Configuration Information" on page 103.
(Optional) Verifies the syntactic correctness of a configuration before attempting
5.
to commit it, as described in "Verifying a Configuration Before Committing It" on
page 133.
Commits changes made to the configuration, as described in "Committing a
6.
Configuration" on page 133.
Unlocks the candidate configuration if it is locked, as described in "Unlocking the
7.
Candidate Configuration" on page 54.
Ends the Junos XML protocol session and closes the connection to the device, as
8.
described in "Ending a Junos XML Protocol Session and Closing the Connection" on
page 55.
The Junos XML protocol server communicates with client applications within the context
of a Junos XML protocol session. The server and client explicitly establish a connection
and session before exchanging data and close the session and connection when they
are finished.
The streams of Junos XML protocol tag elements and Junos XML tag elements emitted
by the Junos XML protocol server and the client application must each constitute
well-formed XML by obeying the structural rules defined in the document type definition
(DTD) for the kind of information they are exchanging. The client application must emit
tag elements in the required order and only in the allowed contexts.
Client applications access the Junos XML protocol server using one of the protocols listed
in "Supported Access Protocols" on page 27. To authenticate with the Junos XML protocol
server, they use either a Junos XML protocol-specific mechanism or the access protocol's
standard authentication mechanism, depending on the protocol. After authentication,
the Junos XML protocol server uses the Junos login usernames and classes already
configured on the device to determine whether a client application is authorized to make
each request.
For information about establishing a connection and a Junos XML protocol session, see
the following sections:
Supported Access Protocols on page 27
Prerequisites for Establishing a Connection on page 27
Connecting to the Junos XML Protocol Server on page 37
Starting the Junos XML Protocol Session on page 38
Authenticating with the Junos XML Protocol Server on page 43
For an example of a complete Junos XML protocol session, see "Example of a Junos XML
Protocol Session" on page 56.
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