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+bst_burst.py
+------------
+
+Run python bst_burst.py to simulate a microburst to the broadview collector.
+
+To generate time series data:
+
+$ while true
+do
+python bst_burst.py
+sleep 90
+done
+
+
diff --git a/broadview_collector/tools/bst_burst.py b/broadview_collector/tools/bst_burst.py
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+# (C) Copyright Broadcom Corporation 2016
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import json
+import requests
+import datetime
+import time
+
+# Change these to the host and port the collector is listening on
+
+host = "10.14.244.207"
+port = 8082
+
+'''
+
+Program to generate a similated microburst.
+
+A great way to use this is from a loop in bash:
+
+while true; do python bst_burst.py ; sleep 90; done
+
+This will make a pretty grafana graph in monasca that simulates 
+microbursts.
+
+Feel free to modify the bst_report_burst and bst_report_falloff
+dictionaries to similate other data.
+
+TODOS: move the looping into the code, perhaps allow for random
+data and range specification.
+
+'''
+
+class BSTMicroburst():
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        # convert datetime string to monasca timestamp
+
+        print("{} UTC".format(datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")))
+        d = str(datetime.datetime.now()).split(" ")
+        t = d[1].split(".")[0]
+        d = "{} - {}".format(d[0], t)
+        print("Setting timestamp to {}".format(d))
+        self.bst_report_burst = {
+            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+            "method": "get-bst-report",
+            "asic-id": "20",
+            "version": "1",
+            "time-stamp": d,
+            "report": [
+                {
+                    "realm": "device",
+                    "data": 46000
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-port-priority-group",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 45500, 44450]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 25500, 24450]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-port-service-pool",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 10000]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 10000]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-service-pool",
+                    "data": [[1, 3240], [2, 3660]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-cpu-queue",
+                    "data": [[3, 4566, 0]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-mc-queue",
+                    "data": [[1, "1", 34, 89], [2, "4", 1244, 0], [3, "5", 0, 3]]
+
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-port-service-pool",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 0, 24000, 0]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 0, 24000, 0]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-rqe-queue",
+                    "data": [[2, 3333, 4444], [5, 7000, 7000]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-service-pool",
+                    "data": [[2, 5700, 4567, 3240], [3, 3660, 8000, 7549]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-uc-queue",
+                    "data": [[6, "0", 1111]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-uc-queue-group",
+                    "data": [[6, 2222]]
+                }]
+        }
+
+
+        self.bst_report_falloff = {
+            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+            "method": "get-bst-report",
+            "asic-id": "20",
+            "version": "1",
+            "time-stamp": d,
+            "report": [
+                {
+                    "realm": "device",
+                    "data": 15
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-port-priority-group",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 15, 15]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 15, 15]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-port-service-pool",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 15]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 15]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "ingress-service-pool",
+                    "data": [[1, 15], [2, 15]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-cpu-queue",
+                    "data": [[3, 15, 15]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-mc-queue",
+                    "data": [[1, "1", 15, 15], [2, "4", 15, 15], [3, "5", 15, 15]]
+
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-port-service-pool",
+                    "data": [{
+                            "port": "2",
+                            "data": [[5, 15, 15, 15]]
+                        }, {
+                            "port": "3",
+                            "data": [[6, 15, 15, 15]]
+                        }]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-rqe-queue",
+                    "data": [[2, 15, 15], [5, 15, 15]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-service-pool",
+                    "data": [[2, 15, 15, 15], [3, 15, 15, 15]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-uc-queue",
+                    "data": [[6, "15", 15]]
+                }, {
+                    "realm": "egress-uc-queue-group",
+                    "data": [[6, 15]]
+                }]
+        }
+
+    def burst(self):
+	self.setUp()
+        j = json.dumps(self.bst_report_burst)
+        r = requests.post('http://{}:{}'.format(host, port), json=j)
+	time.sleep(10)
+	self.setUp()
+        j = json.dumps(self.bst_report_burst)
+        r = requests.post('http://{}:{}'.format(host, port), json=j)
+	time.sleep(10)
+	self.setUp()
+        j = json.dumps(self.bst_report_falloff)
+        r = requests.post('http://{}:{}'.format(host, port), json=j)
+	time.sleep(10)
+	self.setUp()
+        j = json.dumps(self.bst_report_falloff)
+        r = requests.post('http://{}:{}'.format(host, port), json=j)
+
+def main():
+    x = BSTMicroburst()
+    x.burst()
+	
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()	
+
+