Description:

PyNSXv 0.4.1

PyNSXv
PyNSXv is a high level python based library that exposes ready to use
work-flows and a CLI tool that can be used to control VMware NSX for
vSphere
PyNSXv can be used in two different ways, as a library by importing the
files in the /library subdirectory into your code, or as a CLI tool by
executing pynsxvon the command line after installation. To install
PyNSXv you can use PIP on your system

Table of Contents

`Using PyNSXv as a CLI
Tool <#Using%20PyNSXv%20as%20a%20CLI%20Tool>`__
`Using PyNSXv as a Python
Library <#Using%20PyNSXv%20as%20a%20Python%20Library>`__
`Dependencies <#Dependencies>`__
`Installing PyNSXv <#Installing%20PyNSXv>`__
`Contributing <#Contributing>`__
`License <#License>`__




Using PyNSXv as a CLI Tool
After you installed PyNSXv, the first thing you have to do is to create
your a ini file that contains the host names and credentials of your
vCenter and NSX Manager.
If you have multiple NSX environments, you can create multiple ini
files and reference to them using the -i command line option. By
default PyNSXv will look for a file called nsx.ini in the path your
are running the pynsxv command in.
The ini file has the following format:
# [nsxraml]
# nsxraml_file = <>
# Uncomment the above section and add the path to the raml spec you want to use instead of the bundled version

[nsxv]
nsx_manager = <nsx_manager_IP>
nsx_username = admin
nsx_password = <nsx_manager_password>

[vcenter]
vcenter = <VC_IP_or_Hostname>
vcenter_user = administrator@domain.local
vcenter_passwd = <vc_password>

[defaults]
transport_zone = <transport_zone_name>
datacenter_name = <vcenter datacenter name>
edge_datastore = <datastore name to deploy edges in>
edge_cluster = <vcenter cluster for edge gateways>
After placing the nsx.ini file in you path, you can run pynsxv from
your shell or cmd prompt. On Linux and Mac simply use pynsxv
followed by the subcommand. On Windows you will need to type
pynsxv.exe followed by the subcommand:
▶ pynsxv -h
usage: pynsxv [-h] [-i INI] [-v] [-d] {lswitch,dlr,esg,dhcp,dfw,usage} ...

PyNSXv Command Line Client for NSX for vSphere

positional arguments:
{lswitch,dlr,esg,dhcp,dfw,usage}
lswitch Functions for logical switches
dlr Functions for distributed logical routers
esg Functions for edge services gateways
dhcp Functions for Edge DHCP
dfw Functions for distributed firewall
usage Functions to retrieve NSX-v usage statistics

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i INI, --ini INI nsx configuration file
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
-d, --debug print low level debug of http transactions
Here is an example output using the lswitch subcommand:
▶ pynsxv lswitch list
+---------------------+----------------+
| LS name | LS ID |
|---------------------+----------------|
| edge_ls | virtualwire-63 |
| dlr_ls | virtualwire-64 |
+---------------------+----------------+

Each subcommand has its own set of subcommands, as well as arguments.
You can see what is available by using -h after the first
subcommand:

▶ pynsxv lswitch -h
usage: cli.py lswitch [-h] [-t TRANSPORT_ZONE] [-n NAME] command

Functions for logical switches

positional arguments:
command
create: create a new logical switch
read: return the virtual wire id of a logical switch
delete: delete a logical switch"
list: return a list of all logical switches


optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t TRANSPORT_ZONE, --transport_zone TRANSPORT_ZONE
nsx transport zone
-n NAME, --name NAME logical switch name, needed for create, read and delete
You can also use the -v switch of the main pynsxv command to switch
to a json formated output for use with shell scripts


Using PyNSXv as a Python Library
When using PyNSXv as a Python library you can either download the
individual modules in /library of this repo and import them in your
code, or you can install PyNSXv and import the modules from your python
path for pip installed modules.

To use the modules you will also need to have at least the
nsxramlclient installed (https://github.com/vmware/nsxramlclient).
You will also need a copy of the latest RAML API Spec of NSX for
vSphere (https://github.com/vmware/nsxraml).


Import the module you want to use, as well as the NsxClient Class of
the nsxramlclient.
Then instantiate a session object of the NsxClient Class, and pass
this session object to the function you want to use out of the module
imported from PyNSXv. Here’s an example:

▶ ipython
Python 2.7.11 (default, Jun 17 2016, 20:01:51)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 4.2.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.

In [1]: from pynsxv.library.nsx_logical_switch import logical_switch_list,logical_switch_create

In [2]: from nsxramlclient.client import NsxClient

In [3]: nsxraml_file = '/raml/nsxraml/nsxvapi.raml'
In [4]: nsxmanager = 'nsxmanager.invalid.org'
In [5]: nsx_username = 'admin'
In [6]: nsx_password = 'vmware'

In [7]: client_session = NsxClient(nsxraml_file, nsxmanager, nsx_username, nsx_password)

In [8]: lswitch_list = logical_switch_list(client_session)

In [9]: lswitch_list
Out[9]:
([('k8s-dlr-plr-transit', 'virtualwire-39'),
('k8s-minion-1', 'virtualwire-40'),
('k8s-minion-2', 'virtualwire-41'),
('vic-external', 'virtualwire-51'),
('vic-container-net1', 'virtualwire-52'),
('edge_ls', 'virtualwire-63'),
('dlr_ls', 'virtualwire-64')],
[{'clientHandle': None,
'controlPlaneMode': 'HYBRID_MODE',
'ctrlLsUuid': 'e0c72e20-f39e-41ba-adb4-f0b191521c0c',
'description': None,
'extendedAttributes': None,
'guestVlanAllowed': 'false',
'isUniversal': 'false',

.... Output truncated ....

In [10]: new_lswitch = logical_switch_create(client_session, 'TZ1', 'new_lswitch_name')

In [11]: new_lswitch
Out[12]: ('virtualwire-65', '/api/2.0/vdn/virtualwires/virtualwire-65')
All module function have inline documentation available to guide you
through the needed parameters:
In [1]: help(logical_switch_list)

logical_switch_list(client_session)
This function returns all logical switches found in NSX
:param client_session: An instance of an NsxClient Session
:return: returns a tuple, the first item is a list of tuples with item 0 containing the LS Name as string
and item 1 containing the LS id as string. The second item contains a list of dictionaries containing
all logical switch details


Dependencies
PyNSXv has the following dependencies: - pyvmomi
(https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi) - nsxramlclient
(https://github.com/vmware/nsxramlclient) - tabulate
(https://bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate)
Please check the installation instructions of these projects if you run
into installation issues


Installing PyNSXv
PyNSXv can be installed using pip:
pip install pynsxv

`Installing PyNSXv on
Ubuntu <###Installing%20PyNSXv%20on%20Ubuntu>`__
`Installing PyNSXv on a
MAC <###Installing%20PyNSXv%20on%20a%20MAC>`__
`Installing PyNSXv on
Windows <###Installing%20PyNSXv%20on%20Windows>`__
`Various caveats <###Various%20caveats>`__


Installing PyNSXv on Ubuntu
First update/upgrade using apt and install the python-openssl, libxml
and libxslt dependencies of the nsxramclient using apt. Please also
consult the Github page of the nsxramclient and pyvmomi in case
you run into issues during the installation of these dependencies.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install python-openssl libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev zlib1g-dev python-pip -y
After this you can simply install PyNSXv using pip:
sudo pip install pynsxv


Installing PyNSXv on a MAC
Make sure to install XCODE and its Command Line utilities:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
xcode-select --install
If not yet present on your system, install python pip. The instructions
on how to do so can be found here:
https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/#install-or-upgrade-pip
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
If you don’t have it yet, install homebrew on your system:
http://brew.sh
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Now install some of the xml formating dependencies needed by PyNSXv and
the underlying nsxramlclient
brew install libxml2
brew install libxslt
brew link libxml2 --force
brew link libxslt --force
Finaly we are ready to install PyNSXv using pip:
sudo pip install pynsxv
NOTE: OSX 10.11 El Capitan introduces problems due to an outdated
dependency six. Due to OSX’s new System Integrity Protection (SIP)
pip cannot remove the outdated version and install the needed one:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/209572/how-to-use-pip-after-the-os-x-el-capitan-upgrade/210021#210021
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31900008/oserror-errno-1-operation-not-permitted-when-installing-scrapy-in-osx-10-11
If you run into this error:
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-nIfswi-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'
You should install a new non-bundled python version:
brew install python

sudo pip uninstall pynsxv
sudo pip uninstall six
sudo pip uninstall PyYAML
sudo pip uninstall pyraml-parser
sudo pip uninstall nsxramlclient

pip install pyopenssl
pip install pynsxv


Installing PyNSXv on Windows
To be Done


Various caveats
Should you see this warning message:
UserWarning: /home/vagrant/.python-eggs is writable by group/others and vulnerable to attack when used with get_resource_filename. Consider a more secure location (set with .set_extraction_path or the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment variable).
You can solve this by changing the permissions of the .python-eggs
folder:
chmod g-wx,o-wx ~/.python-eggs



Contributing
Everyone is more than welcome to contribute to PyNSXv. If you come up
with any interesting additional subcommand, workflow, bugfix that you
would like to share, you can simply send us a pull request. Should you
be interested in helping us coding missing functionality, you can see
what we are tracking as enhancements in the Github Issue tracker of this
repository. Before sending us your pull request, please make sure that
you pull the latest code from the devel branch, and base your
additions from this branch. Also note that you might be requested to
sign a Contributor License Agreement before we can merge your code. This
happens automatically when you submit your first pull request.
If you don’t want to code, we still very much welcome any help with
testing and requests for additional functionality. Please don’t hesitate
to contact us and open tickets in the Github Issue tracker if you need
help using PyNSXv.


License
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may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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