The goal of softboxen project is to emulate the presence of a large number
of network devices (such as switches, routers, modems etc) on the network.
These emulated devices expose their management interfaces and support
command-line dialogues in a reasonably convincing way. The main use-case
for softboxenis to create a testing environment for network management
and automation harness.
For more information on softboxen please refer to
user documentation.
The easiest way to play with the example CLI (shipped along with main distribution
as the softboxen-example-switch) is to run two tox jobs on the softboxen
repo - one that starts up REST API server and populates the example model in
the DB, and the other that installs example CLI implementation package and
runs CLI frontend against REST API server.
In one terminal:
$ tox -e example-restapi -- --keep-running
In the other terminal:
$ tox -e example-restcli
/ ____| / _| | | |
| (___ ___ | |_| |_| |__ _____ _____ _ __
\___ \ / _ \| _| __| '_ \ / _ \ \/ / _ \ '_ \
____) | (_) | | | |_| |_) | (_) > < __/ | | |
|_____/ \___/|_| \__|_.__/ \___/_/\_\___|_| |_|
Hint: login credentials: admin/secret
login:admin
Password:secret
Last login on 01.03.2020
Interactive menus will guide you through the implemented commands.
For more information on this matter, please refer to the developer's documentation.
The softboxen package is distributed under terms and conditions of 2-clause BSD license. Source code is freely available as a GitHub repo.
You could pip install softboxen or download it from PyPI.
If something does not work as expected, open an issue at GitHub.
Copyright (c) 2020, Ilya Etingof. All rights reserved.