A10 Networks ACOS API Client


Keywords
a10, axapi, acos, adc, slb, load, balancer
License
Apache-2.0
Install
pip install acos-client==2.9.1

Documentation

ACOS Client

Table of Contents

  1. Supported Versions

  2. Installation for ACOSv4.1.4

  3. Installation for ACOSv4.1.1

  4. Example usage information

  5. Contributing & Testing

  6. Issues and Inquiries

  7. Helpful Links

Supported Versions

| ACOS Version   | AXAPI Version | ACOS Client Version | Status      |
| 2.7.1†         | 2             | >=0.1.0,<0.3.0      | end-of-life |
| 2.7.2          | 2             | >=0.1.0,<0.3.0      | end-of-life |
| 4.0.0          | 3             | >=1.4.6,<1.5.0      | end-of-life |
| 4.1.1          | 3             | >=1.5.0,<2.0.0      | end-of-life |
| 4.1.4 GR1-P2   | 3             | >=2.0.0,<2.4.0      | end-of-life |
| 4.1.4          | 3             | >=2.4.0             | end-of-life |
| 4.1.4 GR1-P5   | 3             | >=2.6.0             | Maintenance |
| 5.2.1          | 3             | >=2.6.0             | Maintenance |
| 5.2.1-p1       | 3             | >=2.7.0             | Maintenance |
| 5.2.1-p2       | 3             | >=2.9.0             | Maintenance |
| 5.2.1-p2       | 3             | >=2.9.1             | Maintenance |
| 5.2.1-p2       | 3             | >=2.10.0            | Maintenance |

†Works only when not using partitioning

Installation

Install using pip

$ pip install acos-client>=2.9.0

Install from source

$ git clone https://github.com/a10networks/acos-client.git
$ cd acos-client
$ git checkout stable/stein
$ pip install -e . 

Usage

c = acos_client.Client('somehost.example.com', acos_client.AXAPI_30, 'admin', 'password')

Example setting up an SLB:

import acos_client as acos

c = acos.Client('1.2.3.4', acos.AXAPI_30, 'admin', 'password')
c.slb.server.create('s1', '1.1.1.1')
c.slb.server.create('s2', '1.1.1.2')
c.slb.service_group.create('pool1', c.slb.service_group.TCP, c.slb.service_group.ROUND_ROBIN)
c.slb.virtual_server.create('vip1', '1.1.1.3')
c.slb.hm.create('hm1', c.slb.hm.HTTP, 5, 5, 5, 'GET', '/', '200', 80)
c.slb.service_group.update('pool1', health_monitor='hm1')
c.slb.service_group.member.create('pool1', 's1', 80)
c.slb.service_group.member.create('pool1', 's2', 80)

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Testing

This project uses tox for testing. To run the test suite simply:

$ sudo pip install tox  # use pip2 if using Arch Linux
$ cd /path/to/acos_client
$ tox

Issues and Inquiries

For all issues, please send an email to support@a10networks.com

Helpful links

Improved speed

pypy: http://pypy.org/index.html

Old python versions

Deadsnakes github: https://github.com/deadsnakes
Deadsnakes ppa: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa