Overview

• To automate with unique sessions concurrently.
• Concurrent sessions is not supported in Windows 8 or 10.
• Windows 8 or 10 OS are single user OS. It only supports one session.
• If you want to use Windows as your API server, you need to install IxNetwork in a Windows server OS and bring up IxNetwork Conenction Manager.

What to use for concurrent session support

• Linux API server

  
  
  • This itself is the IxNetwork API server.
  • It supports ReST API, legacy low level APIs and high level APIs.
  • Get the OVA/QCOW2 appliance downloaded and import it in your hypervisor host.
  • This is deal for sanity and regression testing when you don't need a GUI because all you care for are the passed/failed results.
  • You could also install it in the SDL/HSL linux base chassis.
  
  
  • For SDL chassis, 4 concurrent sessions are supported.
  • For HSL chassis, 10 concurrent sessions are supported.
  
  

• Windows 2012 or 2016 server

  
  
  • Windows servers come with 5 user licenses. Therefore, it supports 5 concurrent sessions.
  • To make it support 10 concurrent sessions, you need to purchase 5 more user licenses.