This package implements Python OO API for Xena traffic generator.

This package was replaced with xenavalkyrie. All future developmenet will be done within the new package

xenavalkyrie keeps backward compatibility with pyxenamanager 1.0.0 so the move should be straight formard:

• change all imports from xenamanager.* to xenavalkyrie.*

Functionality

The current version supports the following test flow:

• Load/Build configuration -> Change configuration -> Start/Stop traffic -> Get statistics/capture

Supported operations

• Login, connect to chassis and reserve ports
• Load existing configuration file
• Build configuration from scratch
• Get/set attributes
• Start/Stop - transmit, capture
• Statistics - ports, streams (end to ends) and TPLDs
• Capture - get captured packets
• Release ports and disconnect

Upgrade from version 0.9.2 to version 1.0.0

Version 0.9.2 is the last version supporting only CLI API. In order to introduce REST API some changes that breaks backwards compatibility were made:

• xena_object.get_attributes(): Remove the attribute parameter and return all attributes of the object instead.
• xena_object.get_attribute(attribute): returns string attributes without the surrounding "", just like they are returned by config/info commands.
• xena_stream.modifiers: returns all and only standard modifiers indexed by modifier index instead of modifier position.
• xena_stream.xmodifiers: returns all and only extended modifiers indexed by modifier index instead of modifier position.

Installation

pip instsll pyxenamanager

Getting started

Under xenamanager.test.xena_samples you will find some basic samples. See inside for more info.

Documentation

http://pyxenamanager.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Usage notes

• Do not create XenaManager manually but use the init_xena factory
• When loading configuration files, first load all files only then manipulate the configuration.

Related works

The package is partially based on https://github.com/fleitner/XenaPythonLib

Contact

Feel free to contact me with any question or feature request at yoram@ignissoft.com