In this lab we will use the f5-super-netops-container to run the workflow we reviewed in the previous lab. The advantage of using the f5-super-netops Container is that all the tools, collections and frameworks are pre-installed and ready to use.
Open an SSH session as described in the previous lab
Run cd f5-postman-workflows/local
Run cp ../workflows/Wrapper_Demo_1.json .
Edit the Wrapper_Demo_1.json file with vim and enter the 10.1.1.4 for
the value of the bigip_mgmt variable
"globalVars": {
"bigip_mgmt": "10.1.1.4",
"bigip_username":"admin",
"bigip_password":"admin"
},
Run f5-newman-wrapper Wrapper_Demo_1.json
Examine the output to see how the workflow was executed. Notice that the same tests that we saw when using Postman are present during this run.
Example output:
[snops@f5-super-netops] [~/f5-postman-workflows/local] $ f5-newman-wrapper Wrapper_Demo_1.json
[Wrapper_Demo_1-2017-03-30-04-08-12] starting run
[Wrapper_Demo_1-2017-03-30-04-08-12] [runCollection][Authenticate to BIG-IP] running...
newman
BIGIP_API_Authentication
❏ 1_Authenticate
↳ Authenticate and Obtain Token
POST https://10.1.1.4/mgmt/shared/authn/login [200 OK, 1.41KB, 108ms]
✓ [POST Response Code]=200
✓ [Populate Variable] bigip_token=WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2
↳ Verify Authentication Works
GET https://10.1.1.4/mgmt/shared/authz/tokens/WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2 [200 OK, 1.23KB, 8ms]
✓ [GET Response Code]=200
✓ [Current Value] token=WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2
✓ [Check Value] token == WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2
↳ Set Authentication Token Timeout
PATCH https://10.1.1.4/mgmt/shared/authz/tokens/WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2 [200 OK, 1.23KB, 14ms]
✓ [PATCH Response Code]=200
✓ [Current Value] timeout=1200
✓ [Check Value] timeout == 1200
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ │ executed │ failed │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ iterations │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ requests │ 3 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ test-scripts │ 3 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ prerequest-scripts │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ assertions │ 8 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤
│ total run duration: 297ms │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ total data received: 1.71KB (approx) │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ average response time: 43ms │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
[Wrapper_Demo_1-2017-03-30-04-08-12] [runCollection][Get BIG-IP Software Version] running...
newman
BIGIP_Operational_Workflows
❏ 4A_Get_BIGIP_Version
↳ Get Software Version
GET https://10.1.1.4/mgmt/tm/sys/software/volume [200 OK, 1.32KB, 16ms]
✓ [GET Response Code]=200
✓ [Populate Variable] bigip_version=12.1.1
✓ [Populate Variable] bigip_build=1.0.196
[Wrapper_Demo_1-2017-03-30-04-08-12] run completed
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ │ executed │ failed │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ iterations │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ requests │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ test-scripts │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ prerequest-scripts │ 0 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ assertions │ 3 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤
│ total run duration: 58ms │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ total data received: 611B (approx) │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ average response time: 16ms │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Examine the environment variables that were saved at the end of the
run by executing cat Wrapper_Demo_1-env.json
Example output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 | {
"id": "c0550892-36d4-4412-bf35-a1d9aa8d2efe",
"values": [
{
"type": "any",
"value": "10.1.1.4",
"key": "bigip_mgmt"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "admin",
"key": "bigip_username"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "admin",
"key": "bigip_password"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "WYKIVPHCNASNVEC55ZDVNH5OO2",
"key": "bigip_token"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "1200",
"key": "bigip_token_timeout"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "12.1.1",
"key": "bigip_version"
},
{
"type": "any",
"value": "1.0.196",
"key": "bigip_build"
}
]
}
|
Notice that the bigip_version and bigip_build variables were
saved. This file is JSON formatted and can easily be used directly
by other tools to drive further automation.