Which protocol does vManage use to provision a WAN Edge during onboarding?

vManage uses NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) to provision a WAN Edge device during onboarding. NETCONF is a standardized network management protocol that provides a programmatic way to configure and monitor network devices. It uses XML-based data encoding for configuration data and protocol messages, ensuring structured and reliable communication for device provisioning. RESTCONF is a similar protocol but uses HTTP methods and YANG data models, often for more modern, web-friendly APIs, but NETCONF is the primary protocol for device provisioning in Cisco SD-WAN. EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) is used for domain name registration and is unrelated to device onboarding. HTTPS is a secure communication protocol but is not a configuration protocol itself; it can encapsulate other protocols like RESTCONF but doesn't define the configuration structure.