shmir / PyIxExplorer

Python OO API for Ixia IxExplorer traffic generator.

Functionality

The current version supports the following test flow:

• Build configuration -> Start/Stop traffic -> Get statistics.

Supported operations:

• Load configuration - reserve ports and load configuration (prt or str)
• Basic operations - get/set attributes, get/create children
• Start/Stop - transmit, capture
• Statistics - ports, streams and packet groups
• Save configuration (prt or str)
• Disconnect

The package also support Add/Remove objects so it supports the following test case:

• Load configuration -> Get/Set attributes -> Start/Stop traffic -> Get statistics. But this is less elaborated and documented at this version.

Prerequisite:

Access to IxTclServer connected to IxServer. IxTclServer can run on any Windows machine as long as it can aceess the IxServer of the requested chassis.

Installation:

pip install pyixexplorer

Getting started

Under ixexplorer.samples.ixe_samples you will find basic samples.

Related works:

The low level API of the package is based on python-ixia package - https://github.com/kontron/python-ixia.

Contact

Feel free to contact me with any question or feature request at [e-mail].