+#start test emulator topology
+#python src/emuvim/examples/monitoring_demo_topology.py &
+
+# start a vnf
+son-emu-cli compute-zapi 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
+
+sleep 5
+
+# check if metric is monitored as expected