---
id: netconf-console2
version: "3.0.1"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: dormant
---

# netconf-console2 — Netconf client CLI tool and interactive console

License: permissive · Maintenance: dormant · Downloads: 220.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

netconf-console2 is a command-line interface and interactive shell for interacting with NETCONF servers. It wraps ncclient to provide a user-friendly way to send NETCONF RPC operations—such as get, edit-config, lock, commit, and custom RPCs—either as a batch of commands in one shell invocation or interactively, one command per line with tab-completion support.

The tool is designed for network administrators and developers who need to query or modify network device configurations via NETCONF. It supports both command-line mode (for scripting and one-off operations) and interactive mode (for exploratory or multi-step sessions), with options to control datastores, output formatting, and transport details. The only hard runtime dependency is ncclient; paramiko enables SSH transport.

Use it for:

- Query running configuration from a NETCONF-enabled network device in a shell script or one-liner.
- Interactively lock a candidate datastore, edit configuration, validate, and commit changes in a single session.
- Send custom NETCONF RPC operations from XML files to perform vendor-specific or non-standard device operations.
- Subscribe to NETCONF notifications and display them in real-time during an interactive session.
- Validate configuration changes against a NETCONF server before committing them to production.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

A command-line and interactive console tool for sending NETCONF RPC operations to NETCONF servers, built on ncclient and paramiko.

Yes, if you need a lightweight NETCONF client CLI and can tolerate dormant maintenance. The package is stable and has no known vulnerabilities, but expect no active bug fixes or feature updates. Install only if you are comfortable maintaining a frozen dependency or if your use case is simple enough that future breakage is unlikely.

## Install

pip install netconf-console2
uv add netconf-console2
poetry add netconf-console2

## Installing netconf-console2

Before you install: Low install friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (ncclient and paramiko). Maintenance is dormant—last release was 819 days ago—so expect no active support or updates, though the package is marked Production/Stable.

License in practice: MIT license is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; you may use and modify the code freely as long as you retain the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install netconf-console2

# Command-line mode:
netconf-console2 --host=example.com --get

# Interactive mode:
netconf-console2 --host=example.com --interactive

Requires a NETCONF server to connect to; SSH transport requires paramiko or cryptography to be available on the system.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package still works reliably with modern versions of ncclient and paramiko, given 819 days without updates.
- Whether Python 2.7 support (listed in classifiers) is still functional or merely historical.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: dormant
- Downloads: 220.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

netconf client cli, netconf console tool, netconf rpc client, network configuration management, netconf interactive shell, netconf command-line, network device configuration, netconf-client, network-management, cli-tool

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