diff --git a/test/streaming-sim/conftest.py b/test/streaming-sim/conftest.py
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+import pytest
+import yaml
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def streaming_sim_config():
+    """Returns the service configuration deployed for the streaming simulation test. In future this needs to be a parameterised fixture shared with other rspec.yml based tests"""
+    with open("test/streaming-sim/rspec.yml", 'r') as stream:
+        data_loaded = yaml.load(stream)
+    return data_loaded
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diff --git a/test/streaming-sim/test_rspec.py b/test/streaming-sim/test_rspec.py
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+import pytest
+import os
+
+def test_service_names(streaming_sim_config):
+    print(streaming_sim_config['hosts'][0]['name'])
+    assert streaming_sim_config['hosts'][0]['name'] == 'clmc-service'
+    assert streaming_sim_config['hosts'][1]['name'] == 'ipendpoint1'
+    assert streaming_sim_config['hosts'][2]['name'] == 'ipendpoint2'            
+
+def test_ping(streaming_sim_config):
+    """This test will only run on linux due to using os.system library"""
+    for x in streaming_sim_config['hosts']:
+        print(x['ip_address'])
+        response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + x['ip_address'])
+        assert response == 0     
+    
diff --git a/test/streaming/conftest.py b/test/streaming/conftest.py
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+++ b/test/streaming/conftest.py
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+import pytest
+import yaml
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def streaming_config():
+    """Returns the service configuration deployed for the streaming test. In future this needs to be a parameterised fixture shared with other rspec.yml based tests"""
+    with open("test/streaming/rspec.yml", 'r') as stream:
+        data_loaded = yaml.load(stream)
+    return data_loaded
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diff --git a/test/streaming/test_rspec.py b/test/streaming/test_rspec.py
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+import pytest
+import os
+
+def test_service_names(streaming_config):
+    print(streaming_config['hosts'][0]['name'])
+    assert streaming_config['hosts'][0]['name'] == 'clmc-service'
+    assert streaming_config['hosts'][1]['name'] == 'nginx1'
+    assert streaming_config['hosts'][2]['name'] == 'nginx2' 
+    assert streaming_config['hosts'][3]['name'] == 'loadtest-streaming'            
+
+def test_ping(streaming_config):
+    """This test will only run on linux"""
+    for x in streaming_config['hosts']:
+        print(x['ip_address'])
+        response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + x['ip_address'])
+        assert response == 0     
+