November 2023

November 27 - Pyats v23.11

New Module Versions

Modules	Version
pyats	v23.11
pyats.aereport	v23.11
pyats.aetest	v23.11
pyats.async	v23.11
pyats.cisco	v23.11
pyats.connections	v23.11
pyats.datastructures	v23.11
pyats.easypy	v23.11
pyats.kleenex	v23.11
pyats.log	v23.11
pyats.reporter	v23.11
pyats.results	v23.11
pyats.robot	v23.11
pyats.tcl	v23.11
pyats.topology	v23.11
pyats.utils	v23.11

Upgrade Instructions

# DevNet Community
bash$ pip install --upgrade pyats

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

Changelogs

New

• bringup.bases

  • Added authenticate method to BringUpWorkerBase

    • Class method to handle authentication before bringup

• bringup.manager

  • Modified __enter__ to authenticate

    • Authentication is done (if required) before start_server is called

• reporter

  • Modified Testsuite/Task report

    • Testsuite and Task now have an overall result in the final report

Fix

• clean

  • Modified bases.py

    • Set default loglevel to be inherited from pyats

• kleenex

  • Modified kleenex package structure

    • Split kleenex into bringup, clean, kleenex

    • Bringup contains the scripts to bringup logical devices

    • Clean contains the scripts common to bringup and kleenex

    • Kleenex contains the scripts to execute clean

  • Fixed issue with kleenex loader where the --clean-image-json argument wouldn’t allow for device aliases to be passed

  • Added unittests to verify changes

• easypy

  • Modified kleenex plugin

    • Updated references to kleenex package structure

• pyats.topology

  • Updated schema to support services for testbed servers.

• manifest

  • Fixed issue with parse_cli_args where the meta argument would get nested in lists if it was specified more than two times

• pyats.connections.bases

  • Add CLI arguments to service wrapper

  • Updated docs

  • Detached service wrapper from easypy runtime

  • Added steps to service wrapper methods to allow for reporting