Initial movement to new repo with cleanup
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+#    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 re
+import select
+import socket
+import time
+
+from oslo_log import log as logging
+import paramiko
+import six
+
+from heat_tempest_plugin.common import exceptions
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Client(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, host, username, password=None, timeout=300, pkey=None,
+                 channel_timeout=10, look_for_keys=False, key_filename=None):
+        self.host = host
+        self.username = username
+        self.password = password
+        if isinstance(pkey, six.string_types):
+            pkey = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key(
+                six.moves.cStringIO(str(pkey)))
+        self.pkey = pkey
+        self.look_for_keys = look_for_keys
+        self.key_filename = key_filename
+        self.timeout = int(timeout)
+        self.channel_timeout = float(channel_timeout)
+        self.buf_size = 1024
+
+    def _get_ssh_connection(self, sleep=1.5, backoff=1):
+        """Returns an ssh connection to the specified host."""
+        bsleep = sleep
+        ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
+        ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(
+            paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
+        _start_time = time.time()
+        if self.pkey is not None:
+            LOG.info("Creating ssh connection to '%s' as '%s'"
+                     " with public key authentication",
+                     self.host, self.username)
+        else:
+            LOG.info("Creating ssh connection to '%s' as '%s'"
+                     " with password %s",
+                     self.host, self.username, str(self.password))
+        attempts = 0
+        while True:
+            try:
+                ssh.connect(self.host, username=self.username,
+                            password=self.password,
+                            look_for_keys=self.look_for_keys,
+                            key_filename=self.key_filename,
+                            timeout=self.channel_timeout, pkey=self.pkey)
+                LOG.info("ssh connection to %s@%s successfuly created",
+                         self.username, self.host)
+                return ssh
+            except (socket.error,
+                    paramiko.SSHException) as e:
+                if self._is_timed_out(_start_time):
+                    LOG.exception("Failed to establish authenticated ssh"
+                                  " connection to %s@%s after %d attempts",
+                                  self.username, self.host, attempts)
+                    raise exceptions.SSHTimeout(host=self.host,
+                                                user=self.username,
+                                                password=self.password)
+                bsleep += backoff
+                attempts += 1
+                LOG.warning("Failed to establish authenticated ssh"
+                            " connection to %s@%s (%s). Number attempts: %s."
+                            " Retry after %d seconds.",
+                            self.username, self.host, e, attempts, bsleep)
+                time.sleep(bsleep)
+
+    def _is_timed_out(self, start_time):
+        return (time.time() - self.timeout) > start_time
+
+    def exec_command(self, cmd):
+        """Execute the specified command on the server.
+
+        Note that this method is reading whole command outputs to memory, thus
+        shouldn't be used for large outputs.
+
+        :returns: data read from standard output of the command.
+        :raises: SSHExecCommandFailed if command returns nonzero
+                 status. The exception contains command status stderr content.
+        """
+        ssh = self._get_ssh_connection()
+        transport = ssh.get_transport()
+        channel = transport.open_session()
+        channel.fileno()  # Register event pipe
+        channel.exec_command(cmd)
+        channel.shutdown_write()
+        out_data = []
+        err_data = []
+        poll = select.poll()
+        poll.register(channel, select.POLLIN)
+        start_time = time.time()
+
+        while True:
+            ready = poll.poll(self.channel_timeout)
+            if not any(ready):
+                if not self._is_timed_out(start_time):
+                    continue
+                raise exceptions.TimeoutException(
+                    "Command: '{0}' executed on host '{1}'.".format(
+                        cmd, self.host))
+            if not ready[0]:  # If there is nothing to read.
+                continue
+            out_chunk = err_chunk = None
+            if channel.recv_ready():
+                out_chunk = channel.recv(self.buf_size)
+                out_data += out_chunk,
+            if channel.recv_stderr_ready():
+                err_chunk = channel.recv_stderr(self.buf_size)
+                err_data += err_chunk,
+            if channel.closed and not err_chunk and not out_chunk:
+                break
+        exit_status = channel.recv_exit_status()
+        if 0 != exit_status:
+            raise exceptions.SSHExecCommandFailed(
+                command=cmd, exit_status=exit_status,
+                strerror=''.join(err_data))
+        return ''.join(out_data)
+
+    def test_connection_auth(self):
+        """Raises an exception when we can not connect to server via ssh."""
+        connection = self._get_ssh_connection()
+        connection.close()
+
+
+class RemoteClient(object):
+
+    # NOTE(afazekas): It should always get an address instead of server
+    def __init__(self, server, username, password=None, pkey=None,
+                 conf=None):
+        self.conf = conf
+        ssh_timeout = self.conf.ssh_timeout
+        network = self.conf.network_for_ssh
+        ip_version = self.conf.ip_version_for_ssh
+        ssh_channel_timeout = self.conf.ssh_channel_timeout
+        if isinstance(server, six.string_types):
+            ip_address = server
+        else:
+            addresses = server['addresses'][network]
+            for address in addresses:
+                if address['version'] == ip_version:
+                    ip_address = address['addr']
+                    break
+            else:
+                raise exceptions.ServerUnreachable()
+        self.ssh_client = Client(ip_address, username, password,
+                                 ssh_timeout, pkey=pkey,
+                                 channel_timeout=ssh_channel_timeout)
+
+    def exec_command(self, cmd):
+        return self.ssh_client.exec_command(cmd)
+
+    def validate_authentication(self):
+        """Validate ssh connection and authentication.
+
+        This method raises an Exception when the validation fails.
+        """
+        self.ssh_client.test_connection_auth()
+
+    def get_partitions(self):
+        # Return the contents of /proc/partitions
+        command = 'cat /proc/partitions'
+        output = self.exec_command(command)
+        return output
+
+    def get_boot_time(self):
+        cmd = 'cut -f1 -d. /proc/uptime'
+        boot_secs = self.exec_command(cmd)
+        boot_time = time.time() - int(boot_secs)
+        return time.localtime(boot_time)
+
+    def write_to_console(self, message):
+        message = re.sub("([$\\`])", "\\\\\\\\\\1", message)
+        # usually to /dev/ttyS0
+        cmd = 'sudo sh -c "echo \\"%s\\" >/dev/console"' % message
+        return self.exec_command(cmd)
+
+    def ping_host(self, host):
+        cmd = 'ping -c1 -w1 %s' % host
+        return self.exec_command(cmd)
+
+    def get_ip_list(self):
+        cmd = "/bin/ip address"
+        return self.exec_command(cmd)