MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer Professional Edition
Introduction
MG-SOFT is a company that offers a suite of network management related products. One of their products, the MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer Professional Edition is a YANG authoring tool that allows you to edit YANG data models in an integrated development environment (IDE).
Download and install
You can download the MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer Professional Edition from the download page on the MG-SOFT website. The designer is available for Windows, macOS, and several flavors of Linux. In this tutorial I use the macOS version.
To do anything interesting with the MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer, you will need to apply a license key. You can purchase a license online or you can request a 30-day evaluation license online. The evaluation license does not allow you to save YANG files. Note: I am not affiliated with MG-SOFT in any way and I don’t get any commission.
Start
Double click on the MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer icon in the applications folder.
When you start the MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer for the first time, it will give you the opportunity to install the evaluation license (you can also do this later using the Help → Apply License Key… menu item.)
Create a new project
After MG-SOFT Visual YANG Designer has been started, choose the Create a new project option:
and enter the details for the newly created project:
Create a new module
Click on the new module button:
and enter the details for the newly created module:
The newly created empty module is displayed:
Add components to the module
In the left Project panel click on the tab:
Drag and drop components from the left Project panel to the middle YANG Tree Preview panel.
As you are dropping the component into the middle YANG Tree Preview panel,
you will see gray lines to indicate where the component is allowed to be dropped.
After a component has been dropped in place, you can enter details for component in the top
right Node Editor panel (in the screenshot below we are entering details for a newly added burners
container).
In the bottom right Source panel you can see and edit the source code for the YANG data model as
it is being constructed.
View the module source
Click on the to see and edit the source code of the YANG data model in a larger Source panel in the top right:
View errors
If there are any errors in your YANG data models, you can see them in the tab in the bottom-right panel, and the offending lines are marked with a red exclamation mark in the source code:
