June 2021

June 29, 2021

New Module Versions

Modules

Version

pyats

v21.6

pyats.aereport

v21.6

pyats.aetest

v21.6

pyats.async

v21.6

pyats.cisco

v21.6

pyats.connections

v21.6

pyats.datastructures

v21.6

pyats.easypy

v21.6

pyats.kleenex

v21.6

pyats.log

v21.6

pyats.reporter

v21.6

pyats.results

v21.6

pyats.robot

v21.6

pyats.tcl

v21.6

pyats.topology

v21.6

pyats.utils

v21.6

Upgrade Instructions

# DevNet Community
bash$ pip install --upgrade pyats

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

Feature List

Fix

  • fileutils

    • Added check server name to prevent showing unneeded warnings

  • pyats

    • Updated manifest schema

    • pyats manifest run will use ‘default’ arguments if no profile is specified

    • Updated manifest implementation to fix usage of easypy command

  • log

    • change socketio and engineio version requirements to

  • pyats.filetransferutils
    • Updated FileUtilsBase.from_device method

      • Added protocol parameter for protocol sub-plugins

  • reporter
    • Modified Explorer

      • Added __bool__ to check for when no sections exist in reporter

    • Added health_result and health_summary in results.json

    • Modified ReporterServer

      • When getting a section wait for log lines to be counted first

  • kleenex

    • Update url clean-image CLI handling to allow url style syntax for files

    • Fixed loading of multiple clean files with a mixture of alias and real device names

    • Fix log handlers to avoid duplicate output on terminal

  • cisco (internal)
    • Removed PackagesDiscoveryPlugin

      • removed PackagesDiscoveryPlugin class.

    • Modified UploadSubcommand

      • Changed help message to inform that logs are uploaded to TaaS Logviewer

      • Added Link to Logviewer when archive was sucessfully uploaded

  • logs

    • Update logviewer to check archive and runinfo location set in pyats.conf,

  • connection manager

    • Use ‘cli’ as default alias for xrUT

    • Modified logic for single connection ‘via’ to be compatible with xrUT

  • markup processor

    • Allow string replacement with %CALLABLE markup for non-string return values

  • testbed loader

    • Updated to use genie.testbed.load instead of genie.conf.utils.converter

New

  • topology

    • added testbed methods to execute against devices in parallel

    • The following methods are available

      • testbed.connect

      • testbed.disconnect

      • testbed.destroy

      • testbed.execute

      • testbed.configure

      • testbed.parse