Already automating your lab with test scripts?

Smart move. But chances are, physical layer reconfigurations are a bottleneck, resulting in sub-optimized benefits from your software automation. Get the most out of your automation efforts by automating the physical layer with EdenTree's APIs for Lab Automation, which allow you to control the physical layer with script commands from Tcl, PERL, and other scripting languages. Integrating existing automation platforms with EdenTree software is easy. Lab Manager provides the mechanisms for integration.

AUTOMATED TEST LOGIC
With more and more network test labs automating their test processes, EdenTree’s robust API command set gives test organizations the flexibility and control needed to incorporate device and test bed management and reservations into their script-managed test processes. Using the Lab Manager APIs, your existing test scripts can easily incorporate:

1. Creating and modifying test topologies on the fly
2. Recalling saved test topologies
3. Applying topologies now
4. Scheduling topologies for some time in the future
5. Making and breaking connections
6. Controlling power to devices in the topology
7. Tapping connections for monitoring traffic with analyzers

For complete end-to-end test automation, perform any of the above, plus a whole lot more, within sophisticated test logic.

LAUNCHING SCRIPTS FROM LAB MANAGER GUI
From the Lab Manager GUI, launch any type of executable or script... On-Demand or Scheduled in conjunction with topology reservations. This powerful feature lets automation engineers create scripts and associate those scripts with specific devices or device types, so that everyone else can easily access the right scripts at the right time.

1. Register one or more script servers where scripts are stored
2. Associate scripts with specific devices and/or device types
3. Multiple options for passing parameters to scripts: Manually entered, pick lists, or automated variables from the device's properties
4. Right-click access to scripts with descriptive names
5. View results
6. For scheduled scripts, automated triggers launch scripts at the reservation start or end

Use on-demand scripts to perform actions on devices under test and test devices, such as:

1. Firmware download
2. System reset/reboot
3. Port initialization
4. Starting an application, traffic generation, etc
5. Storing test results in a repository
6. ... And anything else you can do with a script

The Lab Manager API is available as part of the Lab Manager product.