Multiple Applications will connect to a Junos device using netconf to collect information or configure the device

To troubleshoot the communication flow, netconf traceoptions can be used to capture the complete conversation between Junos Device and management platform.

Incomplete list of Juniper products that use netconf communications to manage devices

Junos Space

Contrail Service Orchestration

Paragon Automation

Paragon Insights

Security Director Cloud

Mist

The following commands can be used to enable netconf traceoptions

set system services netconf traceoptions file jtac-netconf-trace

set system services netconf traceoptions file size 10m

set system services netconf traceoptions file files 5

set system services netconf traceoptions flag all

Change the number of files or the file size if a longer capture time is needed.