We run two types of integration tests before shipping a netlab release: device integration tests that check whether we correctly implemented netlab features on all supported devices, and platform integration tests that check whether rarely-used core functionality works as expected. I want to have some validation included in the platform integration tests to ensure the lab devices are started, and that the links and the management network work as expected. The simplest way to get that done is to start OSPF with short hello intervals (to get adjacency up in no time), for example: