snappi-ixnetwork 1.46.0
The Snappi IxNetwork Open Traffic Generator Python Package
Requires Python: <4,>=3.7
Keywords: snappi, ixnetwork, testing, open traffic generator, automation

# snappi Extension for IxNetwork

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This extension allows executing test scripts written using [snappi](https://github.com/open-traffic-generator/snappi) against  
IxNetwork, (one of) Keysight's implementation of [Open Traffic Generator](https://github.com/open-traffic-generator/models/releases).

> The repository is under active development.

To start contributing, please see [contributing.md](contributing.md).

## Install on a client 

```sh
python -m pip install --upgrade "snappi[ixnetwork]"
```

## Start scripting

```python
"""
Configure a raw TCP flow with,
- tx port as source to rx port as destination
- frame count 10000, each of size 128 bytes
- transmit rate of 1000 packets per second
Validate,
- frames transmitted and received for configured flow is as expected
"""

import snappi
# host is IxNetwork API Server
api = snappi.api(location='https://localhost:443', ext='ixnetwork')
# new config
config = api.config()
# port location is chassis-ip;card-id;port-id
tx, rx = (
    config.ports
    .port(name='tx', location='192.168.0.1;2;1')
    .port(name='rx', location='192.168.0.1;2;2')
)
# configure layer 1 properties
ly, = config.layer1.layer1(name='ly')
ly.port_names = [tx.name, rx.name]
ly.speed = ly.SPEED_10_GBPS
ly.media = ly.FIBER
# configure flow properties
flw, = config.flows.flow(name='flw')
# flow endpoints
flw.tx_rx.port.tx_name = tx.name
flw.tx_rx.port.rx_name = rx.name
# enable flow metrics
flw.metrics.enable = True
# configure rate, size, frame count
flw.size.fixed = 128
flw.rate.pps = 1000
flw.duration.fixed_packets.packets = 10000
# configure protocol headers with defaults fields
flw.packet.ethernet().vlan().ipv4().tcp()
# push configuration
api.set_config(config)
# start transmitting configured flows
control_state = api.control_state()
control_state.choice = control_state.TRAFFIC
control_state.traffic.choice = control_state.traffic.FLOW_TRANSMIT
control_state.traffic.flow_transmit.state = control_state.traffic.flow_transmit.START  # noqa
res = api.set_control_state(control_state)
if len(res.warnings) > 0:
    print("Warnings: {}".format(res.warnings))
# create a query for flow metrics
req = api.metrics_request()
req.flow.flow_names = [flw.name]
# wait for flow metrics to be as expected
while True:
    res = api.get_metrics(req)
    if all([m.frames_tx == 10000 == m.frames_rx for m in res.flow_metrics]):
        break
```