August 2020

August 25, 2020

New Module Versions

Modules	Version
pyats	v20.8
pyats.aereport	v20.8
pyats.aetest	v20.8
pyats.async	v20.8
pyats.cisco	v20.8
pyats.connections	v20.8
pyats.datastructures	v20.8
pyats.easypy	v20.8
pyats.kleenex	v20.8
pyats.log	v20.8
pyats.reporter	v20.8
pyats.results	v20.8
pyats.robot	v20.8
pyats.tcl	v20.8
pyats.topology	v20.8
pyats.utils	v20.8

Upgrade Instructions

# DevNet Community
bash$ pip install --upgrade pyats

# Cisco Internal Developers
bash$ pip install --upgrade ats

Feature List

Feature	Docs	Whats New
Programmatic Testbed Validation	Docs	The same functionality from the command pyats validate testbed can be accessed from an importable function within Python. from pyats.topology.utils import validate_testbed testbed = {...} problems = validate_testbed(testbed) if problems['warnings']: log.warning('Warnings generated') for warn in problems['warnings']: log.warning(warn) if problems['exceptions']: log.error('Failed to validate testbed') for exc in problems['exceptions']: log.error(exc)
Processor Reporting	Docs	Processor reporting can now be defined within the pyats.conf file. This is replacing the aereport.processors option. Processors that have reporting enabled will appear with other Test Sections and Steps in the Log Viewer. [aetest] processors.report = True

Other Changes

Logviewer

• Added colorful icons to each section indicating the section type

Topology

• Updated topology schema: Added chassis_type under device, and connections, connections_arguments under connections/defaults to support multiple unicon connections.

• Allow credentials to be pickled/depickled.

Connections

• Closed hanging connection log files after connection destroy or disconnect

Reporter/Utils

• Fix writing UIDs as an unhashable type in the results YAML.

Kleenex

• Simplified logging when clean stage fails