Guidelines for writing Python scripts

Although previous experience programming in Python is helpful, experience in other high-level languages is enough to get you started with simple Python scripts.
The Python developer either needs experience with SLX-OS CLI or access to a resource with such experience.
To help decide which editor or integrated development environment (IDE) to use, refer to http://www.python.org.
Make sure that the appropriate version of the Python interpreter is installed on your development computer. For the current version of SLX-OS, install Python 3.5.2.
Make sure that in the Extreme SLX-OS Command Reference you are familiar with the python and the CLI( ) topics.
The script must include from CLI import CLI. This enables the CLI( ) command, by which Python can interact with SLX-OS.
Write the Python script and save it, with a .py suffix. Valid filenames range from 4 through 32 characters (including the suffix). The first character must be alphabetic.

Guidelines for RASLOG event-handler scripts

The additional guidelines for writing RASLOG event-handler scripts are as follows:

The script must include import json.
If an event-handler detects the log messages specified in the triggers and the trigger-function conditions are met, the script is executed. As part of this execution, the script is passed a --raslog-triggers argument with JSON-formatted dictionary containing the relevant message identifiers (MSGID) as keys and the message text as values.
If the trigger-function is OR, only a single MSGID and message text are present.
If the trigger function is AND, all relevant MSGIDs and messages are passed inside the json data structure.

Note

For sample scripts, refer to Python scripts and run-logs.