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+# ScaleOutTemplate --> LinkEventTP
+#
+# CASE1 starts number of nodes specified in param file
+#
+# cameron@onlab.us
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+
+class LinkEventTP:
+
+    def __init__( self ):
+        self.default = ''
+
+    def CASE1( self, main ):            #This is the initialization case
+        import os.path                  #this case will clean up all nodes 
+                                        #but only node 1 isnodestarted in this case
+        
+        global clusterCount             #number of nodes running
+        global ONOSIp                   #list of ONOS IP addresses 
+
+        clusterCount = 1
+        ONOSIp = [ 0 ]
+
+        #Load values from params file
+        checkoutBranch = main.params[ 'GIT' ][ 'checkout' ]
+        gitPull = main.params[ 'GIT' ][ 'autopull' ]
+        cellName = main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'cellName' ]
+        Features= main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'cellFeatures' ]
+        BENCHIp = main.params[ 'BENCH' ][ 'ip1' ]
+        BENCHUser = main.params[ 'BENCH' ][ 'user' ]
+        maxNodes = int(main.params[ 'availableNodes' ])
+        Features = main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'cellFeatures' ]
+        skipMvn = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'skipCleanInstall' ]
+        flickerRate = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'flickerRate']
+        deviceDistribution = (main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'devicesPerNode']).split(",")    
+        MNip = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'MN' ]
+        logFileName = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'logFile' ]
+        onBaremetal = main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'onBaremetal' ]
+
+        main.ONOSbench.handle.sendline("export TERM=vt100")
+        main.ONOSbench.handle.expect(":~") 	    
+        homeDir = os.path.expanduser('~')
+
+        #Populate ONOSIp with ips from params 
+        for i in range(1, maxNodes + 1): 
+ 	    ipString = 'ip' + str(i) 
+     	    ONOSIp.append(main.params[ 'CTRL' ][ ipString ]) 
+        
+	    #kill off all onos processes 
+        main.log.step("Safety check, killing all ONOS processes")
+        main.log.step("before initiating enviornment setup")
+        for node in range(1, maxNodes + 1):
+            main.ONOSbench.onosDie(ONOSIp[node])
+
+        #construct the cell file
+        main.log.step("Creating cell file")
+        cellIp = []
+        for node in range (1, clusterCount + 1):
+            	cellIp.append(ONOSIp[node]) 
+        main.ONOSbench.createCellFile(BENCHIp,cellName,MNip,str(Features), *cellIp)
+
+        main.step( "Set Cell" )
+        main.ONOSbench.setCell(cellName)
+
+        #Uninstall everywhere
+        main.log.step( "Cleaning Enviornment..." )
+        for i in range(1, maxNodes + 1):
+            main.log.info(" Uninstalling ONOS " + str(i) )
+            main.ONOSbench.onosUninstall( ONOSIp[i] )
+
+        myDistribution = []
+        for node in range (1, clusterCount + 1): 
+            myDistribution.append(deviceDistribution[node-1]) 
+
+        main.ONOSbench.createLinkGraphFile( BENCHIp,cellIp,myDistribution) 
+        main.ONOSbench.createNullDevProviderFile( BENCHIp, cellIp, myDistribution) 
+        main.ONOSbench.createNullLinkProviderFile(BENCHIp)
+        
+        #git step - skipable 
+        main.step( "Git checkout and pull " + checkoutBranch )
+        if gitPull == 'on':
+            checkoutResult = main.ONOSbench.gitCheckout( checkoutBranch )
+            pullResult = main.ONOSbench.gitPull()
+
+        else:
+            checkoutResult = main.TRUE
+            pullResult = main.TRUE
+            main.log.info( "Skipped git checkout and pull" )
+        
+        #mvn clean install, for debugging set param 'skipCleanInstall' to yes to speed up test
+        if skipMvn != "yes":
+            mvnResult = main.ONOSbench.cleanInstall()
+
+        ### configure event rate file ###
+        main.log.step("Writing Default Topology Provider config file")
+        localPath = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'configFile' ]
+        filePath = homeDir + localPath
+        main.log.info(filePath)
+        configFile = open(filePath, 'w+')
+        main.log.info("File Opened")
+        configFile.write("maxEvents = 1\n")
+        configFile.write("maxIdleMs = 0\n")
+        configFile.write("maxBatchMs = 0\n")
+        main.log.info("File written and closed")
+        configFile.close()
+
+        logFile = open(logFileName, 'w+')
+        main.log.info("Created log File")
+        logFile.close()
+
+        if onBaremetal == "true":
+            filename = "/onos/tools/package/bin/onos-service"
+            serviceConfig = open(homeDir + filename, 'w+')
+            serviceConfig.write("#!/bin/bash\n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("#------------------------------------- \n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("# Starts ONOS Apache Karaf container\n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("#------------------------------------- \n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("#export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/}\n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("""export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS:--Xms256m -Xmx8G}" \n """)
+            serviceConfig.write("")
+            serviceConfig.write("ONOS_HOME=/opt/onos \n ")
+            serviceConfig.write("")
+            serviceConfig.write("[ -d $ONOS_HOME ] && cd $ONOS_HOME || ONOS_HOME=$(dirname $0)/..\n")
+            serviceConfig.write("""${ONOS_HOME}/apache-karaf-$KARAF_VERSION/bin/karaf "$@" \n """)
+            serviceConfig.close() 
+
+        main.step( "Creating ONOS package" )
+        packageResult = main.ONOSbench.onosPackage()  
+
+        main.step( "Installing ONOS package" )
+        install1Result = main.ONOSbench.onosInstall( node=ONOSIp[1] )
+
+        main.step( "Verify cells" )
+        verifyCellResult = main.ONOSbench.verifyCell()
+
+        main.step( "Enviornment setup and verification complete." )
+        main.ONOS1cli.startOnosCli( ONOSIp[1] )
+        main.step( "ONOS 1 is up and running." )
+        main.ONOSbench.handle.expect(":~") #there is a dangling sendline somewhere...	
+    
+    def CASE2( self, main ):
+        # This case increases the cluster size by whatever scale is
+        # Note: 'scale' is the size of the step
+        # if scaling is not a part of your test, simply run this case
+        # once after CASE1 to set up your enviornment for your desired 
+        # cluster size. If scaling is a part of you test call this case each time 
+        # you want to increase cluster size
+
+        ''                                                         
+        'Increase number of nodes and initiate CLI'
+        ''
+        import time
+        global clusterCount
+    
+        cellName = main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'cellName' ]
+        Features= main.params[ 'ENV' ][ 'cellFeatures' ]
+        BENCHIp = main.params[ 'BENCH' ][ 'ip1' ]
+        MNip = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'MN' ]        
+        deviceDistribution = (main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'devicesPerNode']).split(",")
+
+        scale = int( main.params[ 'SCALE' ] )
+        clusterCount += scale
+
+        main.log.step( "Cleaning Enviornment..." )
+        for i in range(1, maxNodes + 1):
+            main.ONOSbench.onosDie(ONOSIp[i])
+            main.log.info(" Uninstalling ONOS " + str(i) )
+            main.ONOSbench.onosUninstall( ONOSIp[i] )
+
+        myDistribution = []
+        for node in range (1, clusterCount + 1):
+            myDistribution.append(deviceDistribution[node-1])
+
+        main.log.step("Creating cell file")
+        cellIp = []
+        for node in range (1, clusterCount + 1):
+                cellIp.append(ONOSIp[node])
+        main.ONOSbench.createCellFile(BENCHIp,cellName,MNip,str(Features), *cellIp)
+
+        main.ONOSbench.createLinkGraphFile( BENCHIp,cellIp,myDistribution)
+        main.ONOSbench.createNullDevProviderFile( BENCHIp, cellIp, myDistribution)
+        main.ONOSbench.createNullLinkProviderFile(BENCHIp)
+
+        main.step( "Set Cell" )
+        main.ONOSbench.setCell(cellName)
+
+        main.step( "Packaging" ) 
+        main.ONOSbench.onosPackage()
+
+        main.log.report( "Increasing cluster size to " + str( clusterCount ) )
+        for node in range(1, clusterCount + 1):
+            time.sleep(10)
+            main.log.info("Starting ONOS " + str(node) + " at IP: " + ONOSIp[node])
+            main.ONOSbench.onosInstall( node=ONOSIp[node] )
+            exec "a = main.ONOS%scli.startOnosCli" %str(node)
+            a(ONOSIp[node])
+        
+        for node in range(1, clusterCount + 1):
+            for i in range( 2 ):
+                isup = main.ONOSbench.isup( ONOSIp[node] )
+                if isup:
+                    main.log.info("ONOS " + str(node) + " is up\n")
+                    break
+            if not isup:
+                main.log.report( "ONOS " + str(node) + " didn't start!" )
+    
+    def CASE3( self, main ):   
+        import time
+        import json
+        import string 
+        import csv
+        import os.path
+        import requests
+        import numpy
+
+        sustainability = float(main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'linkgraphdif' ])
+        flickerRates = (main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'flickerRates']).split(",")        
+        homeDir = os.path.expanduser('~')     
+
+        linkResult = main.FALSE
+        scale = int( main.params[ 'SCALE' ] )
+
+        testDelay = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'wait' ]
+                
+        for node in range(1, clusterCount + 1): 
+            main.log.info("Writing flicker file to node " + str(node))
+            main.ONOSbench.createNullLinkProviderFile( ONOSIp[node], eventRate=flickerRates[node-1], onNode=True  )     
+
+        testDuration = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'duration' ]
+        stop = time.time() + float( testDuration )
+
+        msg = ( "Starting test loop for " + str(testDuration) + " seconds on a " + str(clusterCount) + " node cluster" )
+        main.log.info( msg )
+        logInterval = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'log_interval' ]
+
+        linkResults = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
+        graphResults = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
+        JsonStr = [ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ]
+        JsonObj = [ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ]
+        
+        while time.time() < stop:
+            time.sleep( float( logInterval ) )
+            for node in range(1, clusterCount+1):         
+                main.ONOSbench.handle.sendline("""onos $OC1 topology-events-metrics|grep "Topology Link Events"|cut -d ' ' -f7 """)
+                main.ONOSbench.handle.expect(":~") 
+                raw = (main.ONOSbench.handle.before).splitlines() 
+                myresult = "--"
+                for word in raw: 
+                    if "m1" in word: 
+                        myresult = word 
+                        myresult = myresult.replace("m1=","")
+                        break 
+                if myresult == "--": 
+                    main.log.error("Parse error or no data error") 
+                msg = ( "Node " + str(node)  +  " Link Event TP: " + str(myresult) )
+                main.log.info( msg )
+                linkResults[node] = round(float(myresult),2)
+                myLinkRate = round(float(myresult),2)
+
+                main.ONOSbench.handle.sendline("""onos $OC1 topology-events-metrics|grep "Topology Graph Events"|cut -d ' ' -f7 """)
+                main.ONOSbench.handle.expect(":~")
+                raw = (main.ONOSbench.handle.before).splitlines()
+                myresult = "--"
+                for word in raw:
+                    if "m1" in word:
+                        myresult = word
+                        myresult = myresult.replace("m1=","")
+                        break
+                if myresult == "--":
+                    main.log.error("Parse error or no data error")
+                msg = ( "Node " + str(node) + " Graph Event TP: " + str(myresult) )
+                main.log.info( msg )
+                graphResults[node] = round(float(myresult),2)
+                myGraphRate = round(float(myresult),2)
+                
+                difLinkGraph = float(myLinkRate - myGraphRate)
+                difLinkGraph = numpy.absolute(difLinkGraph)
+                main.log.info("Node " + str(node) + " abs(Link event - Graph event) = " + str(difLinkGraph)) 
+                tempx = numpy.divide(difLinkGraph,float(myLinkRate)) 
+                if tempx > sustainability:
+                    main.log.error("Difference in link event rate and graph event rate above " + str(sustainability) + " tolerance") 
+                print("")
+
+        print("")
+        print("")
+
+        main.log.report("Final Link Event TP Results on " + str(clusterCount) + " node cluster")
+        main.log.report("_______________________________________________")
+        for node in range(1, clusterCount+1):
+            main.log.report("Node " + str(node) + ": " + str(linkResults[node])) 
+
+        print("")
+        print("")
+
+        main.log.report("Final Graph Event TP Results on " + str(clusterCount) + " node cluster")
+        main.log.report("_______________________________________________")
+        for node in range(1, clusterCount+1):
+            main.log.report("Node " + str(node) + ": " + str(graphResults[node]))           
+          
+        ################################################################################# 
+				# 	Data Logging
+
+        logFileName = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'logFile' ]
+        logFile = open(logFileName, 'a')
+        main.log.info("Log file opened")
+        flickerRate = main.params[ 'TEST' ][ 'flickerRate']
+
+        for node in range (1, clusterCount + 1):
+            # replare ->  logFile.write( str(clusterCount) + "," + flickerNodes + "," )
+            logFile.write("'" + "baremetal" + str(node)  + "'," )
+            logFile.write( testDuration + "," )
+            logFile.write( flickerRate + "," )
+            logFile.write( str(linkResults[node]) + "," )
+            logFile.write( str(graphResults[node]) + "\n" )
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+        logFile.close()
+        main.log.info("Log file closed")        
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