Install the CLI Shell on Linux or Mac

This section provides steps for installing the NSX Advanced Load Balancer CLI shell onto the Linux or Macintosh. The steps are the same for either OS.

Procedure

1. Install pip, if not already installed.
2. Install virtualenv, if not already installed.

   sudo pip install virtualenv
    Downloading virtualenv-14.0.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.8MB 178kB/s
    Installing collected packages: virtualenv
    Successfully installed virtualenv-14.0.6

3. Create a virtual environment for the CLI shell.

   virtualenv avi_shell
    New python executable in /home/user/git/clean/avi-dev/build/avi_shell/bin/python
    Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.

4. Go to the CLI shell virtual environment.

   cd avi_shell/
    source ./bin/activate

5. Install the CLI shell package.

   pip install /tmp/avi_shell-18.2.1-9010.tar.gz
    Processing /tmp/avi_shell-18.2.1-9010.tar.gz
    Collecting cmd2==0.6.8 (from shell-client==18.2)
    Collecting iso8601==0.1.11 (from shell-client==18.2)
    Using cached iso8601-0.1.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
    ...
    ...
    Successfully installed cmd2-0.6.8 commentjson-0.6 iso8601-0.1.11 prettytable-0.7.2 pyparsing-2.1.0 pytz-2015.7 requests-2.9.1 requests-toolbelt-0.5.1 shell-client-17.2.17 urllib3-1.14 virtualenv-13.1.2 wheel-0.26.0 wrapt-1.10.6

   Note:

   For installing a CLI shell to manage an OpenStack write access mode deployment with Keystone support enabled, see Install the LBaaS CLI Shell (OpenStack with Keystone) topic in the VMware NSX Advanced Load BalancerInstallation Guide.