June 2019

June 25th- Genie v19.6.0

Module	Versions
genie	19.6.0
genie.abstract	19.6.0
genie.conf	19.6.0
genie.examples	19.6.0
genie.harness	19.6.0
genie.libs.conf	19.6.0
genie.libs.filetransferutils	19.6.0
genie.libs.ops	19.6.0
genie.libs.parser	19.6.0
genie.libs.robot	19.6.0
genie.libs.sdk	19.6.0
genie.libs.telemetry	19.6.0
genie.metaparser	19.6.0
genie.ops	19.6.0
genie.parsergen	19.6.0
genie.predcore	19.6.0
genie.telemetry	19.6.0
genie.utils	19.6.0
genie.trafficgen	19.6.0
unicon	19.6.0

Upgrade Instructions

pip install --upgrade genie genie.abstract genie.conf genie.examples genie.harness genie.libs.conf genie.libs.filetransferutils genie.libs.ops genie.libs.parser genie.libs.robot genie.libs.sdk genie.libs.telemetry genie.metaparser genie.ops genie.parsergen genie.predcore genie.telemetry genie.utils unicon genie.trafficgen

Features

Genie

• genie parse –raw - Can be used to collect device output without parsing them

• Genie Cli does not modify the state of the device anymore

Infrastructure

• Support for duplicate triggers

• New Processors

• run_genie_sdk new arguments, support for trigger and verification datafile

• Ops Schema

• New get_exclude API for OPS and Parser

• New Import for Genie testbed - from genie import testbed

Genie.Libs.Parser

• Over 40 new IOSXE, IOS & NXOS Parsers!

  • IOSXE: 12

  • IOS: 2

  • NXOS: 22

  • ASA: 7

• Changelog can be checked here

Genie.Libs.Ops

• Genie learn beacame more time efficient!

  • Now it can learn custom arguments (Ex:Ethernet1/1/1)

  • It can learn for specific parsers

• Changelog can be checked here

Genie.Libs.Sdk

• Updates on HA/Reload triggers!

• New NXOS TriggerMplsEncsp Trigger!

• Changelog can be checked here

Genie.Trafficgen

• Get stats from “Flow Statistics” view

• Generate traffic streams after config change

• Enable/disable “flow tracking” filter per traffic stream

• Export Ixia QuickTest PDF report

• Generate Ixia QuickTest PDF report

• Execute Ixia QuickTest on IxNetwork

• Get entire traffic configuration attributes

• Get traffic stream attributes

• Get flow group attributes

• Get quick flow group attributes

• Configure packet size per traffic stream

• Configure packet rate per flow group

• Configure packet rate per traffic stream

• Configure layer2 bit rate per flow group

• Configure layer2 bit rate per traffic stream

• Configure line rate per flow group

• Configure line rate per traffic stream

• Bugfix pull multi-page stats for custom “GENIE” view

• Check traffic loss per flow group

• Start/stop traffic per flow group

• Start/stop traffic per Quick Flow Group

• Flags to add/remove columns in custom “GENIE” view

• Enhance check traffic to check only L3L3 traffic streams

• Enhance check_traffic_loss to iterate internally

Unicon

• iosxr plugin

  • Now handling “Enter secret:” and “Enter secret again:” correctly.

  • iosxr/spitfire regex fixes, added init config commands with timeout.

  • spitfire plugin now accepts username and enable password.

• nxos plugin

  • Added guestshell service.

  • Config lock fix

  • add utils method retry_state_machine_go_to

  • add arguments in generic Configure and HaConfigure service for retrying go_to config sate

  • add retry go_to config sate in nxos Reload and HANxosReloadService

  • fix nxos configuration locked problem after reload

  • add nxos n9k plugin whose reload service supports image_to_boot argument

• generic plugin

  • Fix reload service that was hanging when mgmt connection was attempted.

  • Updated execute() service to allow override of default service dialogs by passing service_dialog

  • improve ping extd_ping judgement and fix endless ping dialog on erroneous value

  • Copy service now correctly detects “Could not resolve hostname” as an error

• asa plugin

  • update to handle –more– prompt.

• ios plugin

  • add iol plugin including switchover support for dIOL devices.

• core

  • modifed unicon_record, unicon_replay, unicon_speed environment variables to UNICON_RECORD, UNICON_REPLAY, and UNICON_REPLAY_SPEED.

  • Disconnect timers may now be updated via Settings object

  • Dialogs are now documented using autogenerated documentation for connect() and execute() services.

  • Mock device updates: Updated code that replaces the string ESC in prompt with 1xb. Print the command that was deemed invalid. Added ASA mock device to test more prompt handling.

  • The ‘init_exec_commands’ and ‘init_config_commands’ options can now be passed via the connection block in the yaml topology file.

  • use SimpleDialogProcessor instead of AlarmBasedDialogProcessor

• Remove hard asyncssh package dependency.

  • Now users requiring SSH mocks must manually install the asyncssh package.