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lavacli is a command line tool to interact with one or many LAVA instances using XML-RPC.

lavacli allows you to interact with all LAVA objects:

  • aliases
  • device-types
  • devices
  • events
  • jobs
  • results
  • tags
  • workers

A Debian package is available for Debian unstable and could be installed with:

apt install lavacli


lavacli is also available on Pypi and can be installed with:

pip install lavacli


It's also possible to use lavacli directly from the sources:

git clone https://git.linaro.org/lava/lavacli.git
cd lavacli
virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m lavacli


lavacli can be used with or without a configuration file. Having a configuration file will help when using more than one lava instance.

When using lavacli without any configuration file, the uri should be passed as a command line argument:

lavacli --uri https://validation.linaro.org/RPC2 devices list


The authentication can also be passed in the uri:

lavacli --uri https://admin:my_secret_token@validation.linaro.org/RPC2 devices list


Keep in mind, that any user on the same machine will then see the username and token in the process list.

lavacli configuration file is stored in ~/.config/lavacli.yaml. This is a YAML dictionary where each key is an identity.

default:

uri: https://validation.linaro.org/RPC2 validation:
uri: https://validation.linaro.org/RPC2 admin@validation:
uri: https://validation.linaro.org/RPC2
username: admin
token: my_secret_token staging:
uri: https://staging.validation.linaro.org/RPC2
events:
uri: tcp://staging.validation.linaro.org:5500


When using lavacli, the identity can be used with -i or --identity:

lavacli -i admin@validation devices list
lavacli -i staging events listen


By default, the default identity will be used. Hence both commands are identitical:

lavacli devices list
lavacli -i validation devices list


For each identity, you have to set:

uri: the uri of the RPC endpoint.

You can also set:

  • username: the api username
  • token: the api token
  • version: the api version to use when talking to this instance
  • timeout: the http timeout (defaults to 20 seconds)
  • proxy: the uri to the proxy
  • verify_ssl_cert: set it to true to ignore SSL certificates errors (defaults to false)
  • events: zmq event configuration

The events key is a dictionary where you can specify:

  • uri: the uri of the events stream. If not specified, lavacli will ask the server.
  • socks_proxy: uri to the socks proxy, if needed

Here is the list of available commands and sub-commands.

LAVA aliases can be managed by:

lavacli aliases add <name>
lavacli aliases delete <name>
lavacli aliases list
lavacli aliases show <name>


LAVA device types can be managed by:

lavacli device-types add [...]
lavacli device-types aliases add <name> <alias>
lavacli device-types aliases delete <name> <alias>
lavacli device-types aliases list
lavacli device-types health-check get <name>
lavacli device-types health-check set <name> <health-check.yaml>
lavacli device-types list
lavacli device-types show <name>
lavacli device-types template get <name>
lavacli device-types template set <name> <template.jinja2>
lavacli device-types update [...]


LAVA devices can be managed by:

lavacli devices add [...]
lavacli devices dict get <hostname>
lavacli devices dict set <hostname>
lavacli devices list
lavacli devices maintenance <hostname>
lavacli devices show <hostname>
lavacli devices tags add <hostname> <name>
lavacli devices tags delete <hostname> <name>
lavacli devices tags list
lavacli devices update [...]


LAVA events can be used by:

lavacli events listen
lavacli events wait device [...]
lavacli events wait job [...]
lavacli events wait worker [...]


lavacli identities can be managed by:

lavacli identities add [...]
lavacli identities delete <id>
lavacli identities list
lavacli identities show <id>


LAVA jobs can be managed by:

lavacli jobs cancel <job_id>
lavacli jobs config <job_i>
lavacli jobs definition <job_id>
lavacli jobs list
lavacli jobs logs <job_id>
lavacli jobs queue <device-type>
lavacli jobs resubmit <job_id>
lavacli jobs run <definition.yaml>
lavacli jobs show <job_id>
lavacli jobs submit <definition.yaml>
lavacli jobs wait <job_id>


LAVA results can be managed by:

lavacli results <job_id>
lavacli results <job_id> <suite>
lavacli results <job_id> <suite> <case>


LAVA instance can be managed by:

lavacli system active
lavacli system api
lavacli system export <name>
lavacli system maintenance
lavacli system methods list
lavacli system methods help <method>
lavacli system methods signature <method>
lavacli system version
lavacli system whoami


In order to put a full instance into maintenance, an admin could call system maintenance. This function will:

  • set all workers health to MAINTENANCE
  • wait for all jobs to finish

If the instance should be put into into maintenance immediately, addind --force will:

  • set all workers health to MAINTENANCE
  • cancel all running jobs
  • wait for all jobs to finish

It also possible to exclude some workers with --exclude.

When the maintenance is finished, calling system active will move every worker into MAINTENANCE to ACTIVE.

LAVA tag can be managed by:

lavacli tags add [...]
lavacli tags delete <tag>
lavacli tags list
lavacli tags show <tag>


Some utilities are available with:

lavacli utils logs print <output.yaml>
lavacli utils templates render <output.yaml>


When working with raw logs, lavacli might help by coloring the logs by levels.

It's also possible to filter the logs by level. To only print the serial output and the commands sent by LAVA to the board, use:

lavacli utils logs print --filter target,input


Available log levels are: exception, error, warning, info, debug, target, input, feedback, results.

LAVA workers can be managed by:

lavacli workers add [...]
lavacli workers config get <hostname>
lavacli workers config set <hostname> <config.yaml>
lavacli workers list
lavacli workers maintenance <hostname>
lavacli workers update [...]
lavacli workers show <hostname>


Rémi Duraffort

2019, Rémi Duraffort

March 5, 2019 0.9.5