I have one windows machine from where I am running karate test cases .I have another windows machine which I can access using RDP. Is there a way, I can create a karate test case to connect to other window machine as I need to check existence of some files.
Consider this as not officially supported, but you may need to do some research into this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65187737/143475
But keep in mind that Karate can do anything if an API exists. You can be creative and start a mock-server on the other windows machine. Then anything is possible.
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I want to run few scripts (jmeter scripts) in few AWS ubuntu machines and windows7 machines. Usually I use WinScp (transfer files), putty (run commands) for linux and Remote Desktop Connection for windows machines, to do the work manually.
Now I want to automate these processes and would like to know how to achieve that. My intention is to write code to,
connect to these machines,
copy the scripts,
run the scripts,
fetch the log files and
close the machine
I also want to schedule them. What is the best way of doing this? Also I prefer that the code that I write can be hosted somewhere (so that rest api can be exposed) or called as a direct library (API) in my java server.
I know that chef scripts can be written, but want to know any other alternatives. https://www.chef.io/chef/
Thanks a ton in Advance.
Here is the problem: We have a client that uses Progress Openedge database, we need to execute queries on this database from our servers.
Currently the drivers are installed on our Windows server, and the PHP code uses ODBC to run the queries.
Now we would like to move the code to a Linux server. We tried before to work with their linux drivers but that attempt has failed.
The question is, Is it possible somehow to run PHP code on a linux server, this code communicates with the Windows server, runs the query on the Windows server, and return the results to Linux?
How would you access to this problem.
Thanks!
Yes, it's possible. Your question boils down to "how can my Linux server ask my Windows server to do something" (where the "something" happens to be "talk to a database"), and there are a variety of ways to accomplish that. You could run a web service (RESTful or SOAP) on the Windows server, for example.
Make sure you think about security: if you deploy a service on your Windows server that lets remote clients modify a database, you have to be mindful of which remote clients are allowed to use that service. The last thing you want to do is accidentally allow random strangers to run arbitrary queries against your database.
We have a Knowledgebase Article detailing some setup procedures for Linux installations; it also has a video explaining some aspects of the setup. If the other answered haven't provided a complete solution for you, hopefully our article can at least get you started in the right direction.
Also keep in mind that depending on your version of OE, the driver libraries may be different.
I need to be able to generate some type of Scheduling service within Windows Azure, but which is the best and most resilient?
Currently I have a Windows Service running Quartz, which works okay, but on a Windows Server. I need this to run in the cloud.
The tasks, read/write to a database and some will send emails.
I've looked over all the possible solutions in Stack Overflow, but they appear to be old and not updated to the latests Azure Platform.
Any suggestions or pointers?
The most adapted solution might be a worker role, MS has a tutorial specifically for what you're looking for: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/multi-tier-web-site/4-worker-role-a/
This would definitely a less expensive solution than instantiating a virtual machine, but might require some work.
I ended up using the Azure Mobile service and the Scheduler that come with it, which works a treat
I run a Worker Role using Quartz .NET to schedule stuff. Works great!
https://github.com/quartznet/quartznet
Obviously, that would be difficult to do on the cloud since you won't be able to install services or anything that could run in the background. A less than perfect solution would be to have a workstation under your control handle the scheduling and send updates to the web server which would then write them to the DB server. Otherwise, you should self host the website and application, etc.
I am developing a website that I intend to run within Windows Azure using a single Web Role. The site will make use of the Sphinx Search engine which will need to run as a Windows Service. So, my question is this...is it possible to install the Sphinx Search Windows Service inside of a Web Role.
From my initial research into Azure I am thinking "yes" for the reason that the Web Role is a VM running IIS. Therefore I should be able to remote in, install the service, and it should work. :)
Does this sound right?
Installing software via RDP is not a viable solution with Web/Worker role instances, as these changes won't persist. You need to install it either from a startup script or from OnStart(). Since you want to install as a service, that would imply startup script, since it would need elevated permissions. Note: The installer must support unattended mode, where all parameters are specified via command line with no human interaction.
What about scalability? If you have more than one instance of your web role running, can sphinx run across two instances? From what I read, it supports ODBC-compliant databases, and you might be able to use it against Windows Azure SQL Database. If that's the case, can two sphinx engines run on two different machines accessing the same data store? If so, this sounds like a viable solution.
If installation cannot be automated, or you need something additional like MySQL, you may want to consider placing the sphinx search engine inside a Virtual Machine (new in June 2012). Now you can spin up a Windows 2008 Server, RDP into it, configure it exactly how you want it.
Strictly speaking yes, you could do that. However this makes the assumption that you would be running on one VM instance and also that the instance would never need restarting.
You should consider looking at Azure worker roles for any functionality that would normally exist as a windows service.
After reading your answers, and thinking about it a bit more, I think dropping the idea of installing a service would be the best course of action. I've been looking at the API for Lucene.NET (this may be the same for Sphinx) and it's possible to encapsulate the writing/managing of indexes, etc, within in code and therefore no need for a service.
For the Azure, there is a library for managing index files using both local and Azure storage which could be of use. Scenarios I've read about show that it's then possible to have a Web Role that will process HTTP requests and perform the searches and a Worker Role to accept DB changes via a queue and have it write them to the indexes.
We have a set of Mac machines (mostly PPC) that are used for running Java applications for experiments. The applications consist of folders with a bunch of jar files, some documentation, and some shell scripts.
I'd like to be able to push out new version of our experiments to a directory on one Linux server, and then instruct the Macs to update their versions, or retrieve an entire new experiment if they don't yet have it.
../deployment/
../deployment/experiment1/
../deployment/experiment2/
and so on
I'd like to come up with a way to automate the update process. The Macs are not always on, and they have their IP addresses assigned by DHCP, so the server (which has a domain name) can't contact them directly. I imagine that I would need some sort of daemon running full-time on the Macs, pinging the server every minute or so, to find out whether some "experiments have been updated" announcement has been set.
Can anyone think of an efficient way to manage this? Solutions can involve either existing Mac applications, or shell scripts that I can write.
You might have some success with a simple Subversion setup; if you have the dev tools on your farm of Macs, then they'll already have Subversion installed.
Your script is as simple as running svn up on the deployment directory as often as you want and checking your changes in to the Subversion server from your machine. You can do this without any special setup on the server.
If you don't care about history and a version control system seems too "heavy", the traditional Unix tool for this is called rsync, and there's lots of information on its website.
Perhaps you're looking for a solution that doesn't involve any polling; in that case, maybe you could have a process that runs on each Mac and registers a local network Bonjour service; DNS-SD libraries are probably available for your language of choice, and it's a pretty simple matter to get a list of active machines in this case. I wrote this script in Ruby to find local machines running SSH:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'dnssd'
handle = DNSSD.browse('_ssh._tcp') do |reply|
puts "#{reply.name}.#{reply.domain}"
end
sleep 1
handle.stop
You can use AppleScript remotely if you turn on Remote Events on the client machines. As an example, you can control programs like iTunes remotely.
I'd suggest that you put an update script on your remote machines (AppleScript or otherwise) and then use remote AppleScript to trigger running your update script as needed.
If you update often then Jim Puls idea is a great one. If you'd rather have direct control over when the machines start looking for an update then remote AppleScript is the simplest solution I can think of.