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AutoNetkit: a system to automate emulated network configuration

AutoNetkit

AutoNetkit is a configuration engine to quickly and easily build large-scale network configurations.

Features

High-level syntax

g_ospf = anm.add_overlay("ospf")
g_ospf.add_nodes_from(g_in.routers())
g_ospf.add_edges_from(e for e in g_in.edges() if e.src.asn == e.dst.asn)

Visualization

AutoNetkit provides real-time feedback on network designs using a d3.js network rendering engine.

Installing

$ pip install autonetkit

For the visualization:

$ pip install autonetkit_vis

Using

Draw a graph in an editor such as yEd, and save in the graphml format.

Examples of topology files can be found in the example directory.

$ autonetkit -f topology.graphml
INFO AutoNetkit 0.8.2
INFO Automatically assigning input interfaces
INFO Allocating v4 Infrastructure IPs
INFO Allocating v4 Primary Host loopback IPs
INFO All IPv4 tests passed.
INFO All validation tests passed.
INFO Compile for netkit on localhost
INFO Compiling Netkit for localhost
INFO Rendering Network
INFO Finished

This will generate Quagga configurations and Netkit topology files.:

$ tree rendered/localhost/netkit/
rendered/localhost/netkit/
├── lab.conf
├── r1_1
│   ├── etc
│   │   ├── hostname
│   │   ├── shadow
│   │   ├── ssh
│   │   │   └── sshd_config
│   │   └── zebra
│   │       ├── bgpd.conf
│   │       ├── daemons
│   │       ├── isisd.conf
│   │       ├── motd.txt
│   │       ├── ospfd.conf
│   │       └── zebra.conf
│   └── root
├── r1_1.startup
...

Visualization

You can start the visualization webserver, and topologies will automatically be sent:

$ ank_webserver --ank_vis

Extending

A tutorial on extending using the API can be found here or as an iPython Notebook here.

Users

Users from industry, academia, and university teaching.

Further information

More information on AutoNetkit:

• AutoNetkit YouTube Channel

• CoNEXT 2013 Slides (Dec 13)

• CoNext 2013 Conference Paper

• PyCon Australia 2013 Presentation on Autonetkit (Slides) (July 13)

• API Documentation

• AutoNetkit website

Contact

• Twitter
• Mailing list