+# test if a vnf can be deployed and monitored
+
+#start test emulator topology
+#python src/emuvim/examples/monitoring_demo_topology.py &
+
+# start a vnf
+son-emu-cli compute start -d datacenter1 -n vnf1 --net '(id=input,ip=10.0.10.3/24),(id=output,ip=10.0.10.4/24)'
+
+sleep 1
+
+# monitor a metric
+son-emu-cli monitor setup_metric -vnf vnf1:output --metric tx_packets
+
+# allow some time to gather metrics
+sleep 20
+
+# check if metric is monitored as expected (exported by son-emu, has vnf name as metric id)
+tx_rate=$(son-emu-cli monitor-zapi prometheus -d datacenter1 -vnf vnf1 -q 'rate(sonemu_tx_count_packets{vnf_name="vnf1"}[10s])')
+
+sleep 1