In Huawei’s intelligent O & M architecture, NETCONF is a modern network management protocol designed for transactional, reliable, and concurrent-safe configuration management . One of its key features is the lock mechanism , which allows a user or system to lock a configuration datastore (such as candidate or running configuration) to prevent other users or processes from making conflicting changes simultaneously. This ensures consistency, atomic operations, and rollback capability , which are critical in automated data center environments like CloudFabric.
On the other hand, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is primarily designed for monitoring and basic configuration , but it lacks advanced transaction control features. SNMP does not support configuration locking or transactional commits, meaning multiple users can overwrite each other’s changes, potentially leading to configuration inconsistencies.
Huawei strongly recommends using NETCONF/YANG-based automation (e.g., via iMaster NCE-Fabric) for modern data center operations because it provides structured data modeling, conflict prevention, and programmability , which SNMP cannot offer.
Therefore, the statement is TRUE .
