IxNetwork is the Python package for the IxNetwork Low Level API that allows you to configure and run IxNetwork tests.

Installing

The master branch always contains the latest official release. It is only updated on new IxNetwork releases. Official releases are posted to PyPI.

The dev branch contains improvements and fixes of the current release that will go into the next release version.

• To install the official release just run pip install --upgrade ixnetwork.
• To install the version in github use python setup.py develop for development install or python setup.py install.

Testing

Unit tests can be invoked by running python setup.py test command.

We strongly recommend that you test the package installation and unit test execution against the python environments listed in ''tox.ini''.

For this you can use tox utility. Run the following:

• yum install python-tox
• tox

Documentation

For general language documentation of IxNetwork API see the Low Level API Guide and the IxNetwork API Help.

This will require a login to Ixia Support web page.

IxNetwork API server / Python Support

IxNetwork.py lib 9.00.1915.16 supports:

• Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
• IxNetwork Windows API server 8.40+
• IxNetwork Web Edition (Linux API Server) 8.50+

Compatibility with older versions may continue to work but it is not actively supported.

Compatibility Policy

IxNetwork Low Level API library is supported on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows
• CentOS 7 on x64 platform

Related Projects

• IxNetwork API Tcl Bindings: https://github.com/ixiacom/ixnetwork-api-tcl
• IxNetwork API Perl Bindings: https://github.com/ixiacom/ixnetwork-api-pl
• IxNetwork API Ruby Bindings: https://github.com/ixiacom/ixnetwork-api-rb