T-Rex: Add advanced stateful mode

- provide base routines to run T-Rex in advanced stateful mode

Change-Id: Ib0dc5f2919c370753335f6446860683dc4b12d93
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

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diff --git a/GPL/tools/trex/trex_stl_assert.py b/GPL/tools/trex/trex_stl_assert.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# 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.
+
+"""This script uses T-Rex stateless API to drive T-Rex instance.
+
+Requirements:
+- T-REX: https://github.com/cisco-system-traffic-generator/trex-core
+ - compiled and running T-Rex process (eg. ./t-rex-64 -i)
+ - trex.stl.api library
+- Script must be executed on a node with T-Rex instance.
+
+Functionality:
+1. Verify the API functionality and get server information.
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(
+    0, u"/opt/trex-core-2.73/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/interactive/"
+)
+from trex.stl.api import *
+
+
+def main():
+    """Check server info and quit."""
+    client = STLClient()
+    try:
+        # connect to server
+        client.connect()
+
+        # get server info
+        print(client.get_server_system_info())
+    except STLError as ex_error:
+        print(ex_error, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    finally:
+        client.disconnect()
+
+
+if __name__ == u"__main__":
+    main()