Chapter 19

pyATS Health Check

The health check is one of the most underrated features in pyATS. Health checks allow you to automatically check the operational state of all your testbed devices between testcases and/or test sections during testing. Yes, you heard that right. Without you writing any manual code, pyATS will check the health of all testbed devices during testing. Health checks ensure your testbed devices are healthy during testing and can possibly save hours of troubleshooting by helping detect and debug issues faster when a device fails. All device types supported by pyATS/Unicon are supported by the Health Check feature. In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

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