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NorFab Robot Client¤

NORFAB Robot Client integrates with ROBOT framework to interact with NORFAB, allowing to construct workflows and tasks using ROBOT domain specific language (DSL).

Robot Framework needs to be installed on the client:

pip install norfab[robot]

Supported ROBOT Keywords¤

  • Hosts - Fx filters to target specific hosts, if not provided targets all hosts
  • Workers - names of the workers to target, default is all
  • nr.test - run Nornir Service test task using provided Nornir tests suite
  • nr.cli - run Nornir Service cli task using provided show commands and arguments
  • nr.cfg - run Nornir Service cfg task using provided configuration commands and arguments

Nornir Tests Examples¤

This ROBOT framework test suite runs two tests using nr.test:

/path/to/robot_suite.robot
*** Settings ***
Library    norfab.clients.robot_client.NorFabRobot

*** Test Cases ***
Test NTP
    nr.test    suite=nf://tests/test_ntp_config.yaml

Test Software Version
    Hosts      FM=arista_eos
    nr.test    suite=nf://tests/test_version.yaml

Run test suite from client using robot command line tool:

robot /path/to/robot_suite.robot