I am trying to automate a process that requires logging into an online portal that eventually opens windows explorer with an FTP to the secure server.
The address in explorer is something like: ftp://127.0.0.1:56950/
I need to copy a file from this location to the local machine running the script. The problem is the port changes each time. So for example the next time i run it it might be ftp://127.0.0.1:51432/
I am using Ruby to do most of this as I needed to use selenium and ruby selenium is just amazing. But to sort this issue I am happy to use powershell or anything else.
Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about getting this port number? or any other way I can copy a file from this dynamic address?
Thanks in advance.
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I have script which uses mircrosoft's UIAutomation to automate an application. The script is inside a VPS running Windows Server 2012. The script works perfectly while I am connected to the VPS via Remote Desktop (RDP).
When I am not connected, the script seems to be stuck on SetFocus for a object... which leads me to believe that the script needs a Display/Screen/Session in order to work... but I am not sure if it is possible to do it while I am not connected to the VPS.
I can see 2 possible solutions here, either modify the script in someway to work in this environment or make the VPS have a virtual desktop while I am not connected (this solution might be more related to Server Fault rather than StackOverflow).
I am very confused, thanks for the help in advance :)
I managed to workaround the issue by actually connecting to the server to itself (to 127.0.0.1) via RDP so that it will always have an active RDP session for the automation script to run.
I am not happy with the results but it works... I cannot give clear instructions on how you would need to modify the settings in Windows to allow RDP connections from self, it was a one big trial and error process, I have to modify some policies in the Group Policy Editor and then some stuff that I don't remember.
There is another downside to this, a Windows server will allow 2 simultaneous connections to it but by using this method we are reserving a slot so only 1 connection at a given time is possible, something to be aware of.
I am running a Mac but need to test Web applications in IE. Ideally, I would love to be able to execute a selenium command on my box, and it would spin up a VM (VirtualBox, VMWare, something like that), run the commands in IE, and then exit the VM once I'm done. Is that possible? If not, does anyone else have a better idea of how to run selenium commands in a Windows environment from a box that is not Windows? My commands are in Python 2.7, if that matters. Thanks
Your requirements shall be possible to fulfill.
Selenium can be using "Selenium Server" and your python code using selenium package shall be able talking to it - it uses http protocol for such a remote control.
Selenium server is using Java, and as it is started, it shows url on which it awaits commands.
These urls can be then used in your python code when constructing driver for your browser, there you specify url of remote Selenim server and shall be able continuing as if you would work locally.
Description how to connect is here.
Feel free to comment or reply to me how it went, it sounds very interesting but I do not have any real experience with that so far.
I am trying to work on a old script of mine that I was writing to backup file on my VMware server.
Originally the script was going to run on Linux only, but now I trying to figure out how to make it run on Windows. Most of the modules I need for perl will run on Windows and Linux which is good. But there is one module that I can't seem to find, which is an SSH module.
My plan was to use putty or plink to send commands to the server and return them to the script. But the problem that I see is every time I call putty in the script its going to open new connection to server and close it when it has finished. What I am looking for is a way to open a connection once its open leave it open and then send and receive from that one connection. Only having it close when the script calls a close function or something.
Any idea where I could being with something like this?
Unless someone else has a much better idea because I am open to anything.
There's quite a few SSH client modules from CPAN, such as Net::SSH, Net::SSH::Perl, and Net::SSH2.
You can also try using Expect
http://metacpan.org/pod/Expect
I am needed to move entire directories from one computer in the network to the other (In a platform independent way). Basically I am working on some automation tool to help the developers do Build Verification Tests, for this; I am directed to automate the installation and un-installation of the product on multiple platforms. So, I will need to first copy the files!
And this is where I needed some help in both conceptual and practical knowledge.
Firstly, let me mention that using something like FileZilla or WinSCP is out of the question since I need things to happen automatically and not through button clicks. But please let me know if these tools have any command line utilities!
I tried Perl's NET::FTP, and while it looked promising, I was wondering whether it was the best way to go. Also, I want to know what are the pre-requisites before I can run FTP, I mean would I need perl installed on the other end as well ? I constantly read that the commands from perl's FTP actually try to connect to a FTP host, does this mean its not going to work if I haven't configured the remote host in some way? And if I am right, then what is this extra piece of configuration to be done?
Apart from this, is there any other way I could solve my problem ? I mean I am looking for API's here that would help me do platform independent file transfers. But once again, I cannot use tools that would need button clicks and stuff, because I am doing automation and everything needs be dome programmatic-ally and automatically.
Also, I think this is a very generic problem-statement: "Moving files across a computers connected by LAN"; So, it would be wonderful if we can have a list of (possibly) many options (ways to solve the problem) in the form of answers to this post.
Thanks in advance for any help that you wish to provide.
If nearly all of the files in your directory have changed, creating an archive, sending it over the network, and unarchiving makes sense. Actually, if your LAN is fast enough, though, it may be faster not to compress the archive--just use tar.
If only some of the files have changed, rsync, a command line tool, will only download the changes. It can be used with ssh like this:
rsync -ae ssh username#hostname:/path/to/files /store/here/locally
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/
On Linux and OS X, cron and crontab allow you to schedule scripts to run periodically. Windows provides the Windows Task Scheduler.
FTP is fine if you don't care about encryption over your LAN. Otherwise, SSH would be preferable.
rsync is available on OS X and Linux, but I think you can use it on Windows through Cygwin.
I suggest making an archive (e.g. a .tar.gz file) on the source host, transferring it with scp, and unarchive it on the target host.
You could also use unison or rsync
I would suggest you to develop your own FTP client in .NET. This way you will have complete control over the application, and instead of button-clicks you can schedule it using windows-scheduler. Here is an article about how to create your own FTP client in VB.NET:
http://dot-net-talk.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-create-ftp-client-in-vbnet.html
I have a watir test that downloads some information from a web app to an Excel file, and I then open the file to confirm the contents. On my dev box everything works fine, but the scheduled automation runs (via Hudson) always fail attempting to open the Excel file. I have checked that the correct version of AutoITX3.dll is registered on both machines (Ruby 1.8, Watir 1.6.5). No other versions of AutoITx3 are registered on either machine. The error on the Hudson box is the one expected if the dll is NOT registered, but it is present in regedit in the same location as on my dev box. Both machines are WinXP.
Running the test manually on the Hudson box results in the same error -- unknown OLE server: 'Excel.Application' HRESULT error code:0x800401f3 Invalid class string.
I searched for similar errors and saw one instance where running on a virtual machine had caused similar problems, but only if the VM window was closed. I don't think this is a code error since it runs on the dev box. Any suggestions for debugging this?
TIA,
Sabrina
I find the use of Excel to be an antipattern in test automation. I know a lot of people like it, but if you're using that for automation then there are simpler ways to go about it. Consider using CSV with FasterCSV for the automation tests and checking anything into version control which I'm assuming you're using.
IMHO, you should only use Excel when a human is involved - i.e. you may a series of tests defined in CSV, but you edit them in Excel, save back and then diff against what's in a source control system, storing it as CSV.
Excel is useless to diff, so it doesn't store well in a source repo, there's no reason to install it on a CI box when CSV will do and do better.
That's my 2 cents anyhow. :)
Cheers,
Charley
I would do another search for the issue and leave Watir out of it. I can find several issues for 0x800401f3 associated with FoxPro, Perl, and Oracle.
Have a look at this article http://support.persits.com/show.asp?code=PS01032622
It names the possible causes for your error code.
bq. This error means that either the component has not been registered on the server or the ProgID passed to the Server.CreateObject method is misspelled. On Windows 2003 and XP, it may also mean a permission problem on a system registry key.
I think for you the last one is relevant:
bq. On Windows 2003 and XP, it may also mean a permission problem on a system registry key.
BTW, I googled for ":0x800401f3 Invalid class string." and this was the first result.
What are you trying to test?
That user can open downloaded file with Excel? How do you verify that automatically? With screen shot?
Or that some data is in the file? In that case I would verify contents of the file with something like roo.
I finally figured it out. What I thought was a working Excel install on the remote machine was instead the free Excel reader, which does not have the API hooks WIN32OLE looks for in the registry. Installed the full Excel program and now everything works. I knew the Universe would be consistent!