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pankmish
pankmish

Reputation: 847

Pythonic way to work with multiple linux machines?

I am trying to write a framework which has capability to entaract with multiple linux machines.

For example my test case which is going to use that framework can be able to start a server in a linux machine, start a client in another linux machine and then should be able to make some configuration changes in a different linux machine without waiting for any command to complete.

I have tried using pexpect to do my job but didn't find it more useful.

Can anyone suggest me any Python module which i can use to do my task ?

My Testcase steps are like:

1. Login to SIP Server -> su -> start SIP server
2. Login to Voice Server -> su -> make some configuration changes
3. Login to SIP client -> su -> start SIP client
4. Collect logs and perform validations

In my environment I can't login into my machines directly as su.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Sebastian Wozny
Sebastian Wozny

Reputation: 17506

You should look into using something like python-fabric It allows you to use higher level language constructs such as context managers and makes the shell more usable with python in general.

Example usage:

fabfile.py

from fabric.api import run

def host_type():
    run('uname -s')

Then you can use host_type from the commandline in the directory of fabfile.py:

$ fab -H localhost,linuxbox host_type
[localhost] run: uname -s
[localhost] out: Darwin
[linuxbox] run: uname -s
[linuxbox] out: Linux

Upvotes: 2

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