MG-SOFT NETCONF Simulator

Introduction

MG-SOFT is a company that offers a suite of network management related products. One of their products, the MG-SOFT NETCONF Simulator allows you to simulate network devices that act as NETCONF or RESTCONF servers.

Download and install (attempt)

You can download the MG-SOFT NETCONF Simulator Edition from the download page on the MG-SOFT website. The simulator is only available on Microsoft Windows.

Unfortunately, I don’t own any Windows computers. I tried using Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base running in a t2.large instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS), but when I ran the MG-SOFT NETCONF Simulator installer, I got the following error message about needing a Java Run-time Environment (JRE):

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Downloading and installing “Java for Windows” from the Oracle website did not solve the problem. I spent a half hour Googling how to download “64-bit JRE 1.8” but could not figure it out and eventually gave up.