The E2X Translator (E2X) is a command line tool to translate the configuration of an Enterasys Operating System (EOS) switch into an equivalent ExtremeXOS Network Operating System (EXOS) switch configuration. Main intention is to help migrating from Enterasys Networks (now Extreme Networks) SecureStack or similar to Extreme Networks Summit Series switches.
E2X is implemented in Python 3, with a minimum required version of 3.3. Development and testing is primarily done on GNU/Linux systems, with additional testing on Windows and Mac OS X.
Translation of switch configurations uses models of specific switches. This is used for mapping ports (equivalent Enterasys and Extreme switches have slight differences in port configurations).
The reference source platform for E2X is a C5K125-48P2 switch (C-Series switch with 48 triple speed ports with PoE (including 2 combo ports), and 2 SFP+ uplink ports) using EOS version 6.71.
The reference target platform is a Summit X460-48p switch with an XGM3S-2SF uplink module (Summit Series switch with 48 triple speed ports with PoE, 4 SFP ports, and 2 SFP+ uplink ports).
Documentation for E2X can be found in the docs/ directory. There you find a user manual and a development document, as well as release notes.
A short introduction to E2X is given in the GTAC Knowledge article How to Convert EOS Configurations to EXOS using e2x.py.
E2X is a command line application written in Python 3. An installation of Python 3.3 or newer is needed to start E2X.
$ e2x.py
# Enter EOS configuration commands, one per line.
# End with CTRL+D (sometimes needed twice)
The interactive mode, intended as an interactive translation reference,
is started using the option --interactive:
$ e2x.py --interactive
e2x v1.0.0
Copyright 2014-2017 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
This is free software, licensed under CDDL 1.0
% Command translation assumes VLAN 1 for management
Enter "HowTos" or "commands" to show list
Enter number from "1" to "12" to select HowTo
Enter "q" to quit
e2x>
E2X prints a short help message if the option --help is used:
$ e2x.py --help
usage: e2x [-h] [-V] [-q] [-v] [-D]
[--log-level {DEBUG,INFO,NOTICE,WARN,ERROR}] [--source SOURCE]
[--target TARGET] [-o OUTFILE] [-d OUTDIR] [--mgmt-port]
[--sfp-list SFP_LIST] [--ignore-defaults] [--keep-unknown-lines]
[--comment-unknown-lines] [--err-unknown-lines] [--err-warnings]
[--messages-as-comments] [--abort-on-error]
[--disable-unused-ports] [--interactive]
[FILE [FILE ...]]
Translate ExtremeEOS switch configuration commands to ExtremeXOS. If no
FILEs are specified, input is read from STDIN and written to STDOUT, and
ACLs are preceded by a comment giving the policy file name used in the
translation. If FILEs are specified, the translated configuration read
from a file is written to a file with the same name with the extension
'.xsf' appended. The associated ACLs are written to individual policy
files saved in directory named after the input file (with extension
'.acls'). Default settings of source and target switches are considered
unless the option to ignore switch default settings is given. Valid
input lines that are not yet supported will be ignored.
positional arguments:
FILE EOS file to translate (default STDIN)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-q, --quiet suppress non-error messages
-v, --verbose print informational messages
-D, --debug print debug information
--log-level {DEBUG,INFO,NOTICE,WARN,ERROR}
print messages with log level equal or higher than
LOG_LEVEL
--source SOURCE source switch model (default C5K125-48P2)
--target TARGET target switch model (default SummitX460-48p+2sf)
-o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
specify non-default output file, '-' for STDOUT
-d OUTDIR, --outdir OUTDIR
specify output directory (default '.')
--mgmt-port use XOS management port instead of in-band management
--sfp-list SFP_LIST list of combo ports with SFP installed, e.g.
'ge.1.47,ge.1.48'
--ignore-defaults ignore switch default settings for translation
--keep-unknown-lines copy unknown input configuration lines to output
--comment-unknown-lines
add unknown input configuration lines as comments to
output
--err-unknown-lines treat unknown input configuration lines as errors
--err-warnings treat warnings as errors
--messages-as-comments
add program messages as comments to translated config
--abort-on-error do not create translation of this input file if an
error occurs
--disable-unused-ports
disable additional, unused ports of target switch
--interactive enter interactive mode
supported SOURCE switch models:
C5G124-24
C5G124-24P2
C5G124-48
C5G124-48P2
C5K125-24
C5K125-24P2
C5K125-48
C5K125-48P2
C5K175-24
supported TARGET switch models:
SummitX460-24p
SummitX460-24p+2sf
SummitX460-24p+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-24p+2xf
SummitX460-24p+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-24p+4sf
SummitX460-24t
SummitX460-24t+2sf
SummitX460-24t+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-24t+2xf
SummitX460-24t+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-24t+4sf
SummitX460-24x
SummitX460-24x+2sf
SummitX460-24x+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-24x+2xf
SummitX460-24x+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-24x+4sf
SummitX460-48p
SummitX460-48p+2sf
SummitX460-48p+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-48p+2xf
SummitX460-48p+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-48p+4sf
SummitX460-48t
SummitX460-48t+2sf
SummitX460-48t+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-48t+2xf
SummitX460-48t+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-48t+4sf
SummitX460-48x
SummitX460-48x+2sf
SummitX460-48x+2sf+4sf
SummitX460-48x+2xf
SummitX460-48x+2xf+4sf
SummitX460-48x+4sf
Use a comma separated list of switch models to specify a stack as
source or target switch:
--source C5K125-48,C5G124-24,C5K125-48P2
--target SummitX460-48p+2sf,SummitX460-24t,SummitX460-48p+2sf
There must not be any whitespace in the list of switch models!
E2X is licensed under the CDDL 1.0. See the file LICENSE.txt for details.