Being able to programmatically upload checks and aliases is important. It can simplify setting up deployments of similar topologies across different networks (e.g., in a plugfest with multiple vendors), allow quickly and easily sharing configurations (e.g., for demos), and simplify other testing. This repository contains python libraries and scripts to automate uploading aliases and checks.
You can either scope the installation of the fwd_api python
module to a virtual environment or install it system-wide. The first
is recommended.
Get virtualenv
pip install virtualenv
From the fwd-api directory, create a virtual environment for
Python:
virtualenv fwd_virtual
This should produce a folder named fwd_virtual. Use the virtual
environment by calling:
source fwd_virtual/bin/activate
From this same terminal, follow the instructions in the system-wide instructions.
fwd-api depends on python's request module. To get it, use pip:
pip install requests
After installing requests, use setup.py to install the fwd_api
module; from the fwd-api directory, run:
python setup.py install