TGN - Traffic Generator IXE - IxExplorer

This package implements 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:

stable - pip instsll pyixexplorer

Getting started

Under ixexplorer.test.ixe_samples you will shows basic samples (under development). Additional code snippets can be found in ixexplorer.test.test* See inside for more info.

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 [email protected]