The project

The Clixon open-source project provides tools for automated configuration management include:

• Clixon for YANG-based devices
• Clixon controller for network automation
• CLIgen for generating interactive command-line interfaces

Clixon

Clixon provides an interactive CLI, NETCONF, and RESTCONF configuration interfaces for YANG-based devices. It generates the interfaces from YANG models, and uses an embedded database with transaction support.

You can integrate Clixon with your device to add a configuration interface based on YANG. Typical devices include routers, firewalls and optical devices. It is primarily used for networking devices, but can be used by any device with a YANG model

Clixon resources:

• Clixon Github.
• Clixon user-guide
• Clixon examples
• Community chat forum

Users of Clixon include:

• Netgate uses Clixon in the TNSR product. Netgate also sponsors Clixon
• Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• RtBrick
• Siklu uses Clixon on the Multihaul TG product line.

Clixon is available as dual license GPLv3 or Apache2.

The Clixon controller

The Clixon controller is an open-source tool for network automation of devices based on NETCONF and YANG.

The controller is an extension of Clixon to controll multiple devices. The controller configures multiple devices via NETCONF over SSH and a Python script engine. It can be used for generating, deployment and maintenance of device configurations.

Controller resources:

• Source code.
• User guide
• Pyapi
• Community Chat forum

Users of the Clixon controller include:

• SUNET SNC project to deploy and maintain a 400Gbps national research network.
• NorduNET planned deployment late 2024

CLIgen

CLIgen is the CLI generor part of Clixon.

CLIgen resources:

• CLIgen source code
• CLIgen Tutorial
• All Clixon pased products use CLIgen implicitly.
• Ciena uses CLIgen itself

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