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• [User #1179751]: New Tyrant Features 2015-08-18

  Changes list:

  1. network switching functionality in tyutils for Windows hosts (change which network a host is connected to)
  2. emissary improvements to support foreign language OSes
  3. a new tyutils module to automate interaction with UACUser Account Control prompts in Windows Vista+
  4. a new plan option to disable reaping of hosts before tests
  5. support for accessing arbitrary COM classes on Windows hosts
  6. support for working with the network stack on Windows hosts
  7. various modifications to tyutils' domain.py to improve stability and OSOperating System support
  8. a method to easily install python packages on the remote host and get a mirrored handle to them on the local side
  9. expanded common plan definitions in tyworkflow and a facility for projects to easily override these
  10. wingman (Windows GUIGraphical User Interface Manipulator)
  11. various useful functions in tybase
  12. ability to specify factors on the autoplan commandline
  13. test script to move resources between Tyrant pools
  14. db_admin namespace, testplan, and testcase deletion commands
  15. preservation of reserve_name and reserve_time fields on release of reserved resources
  16. addition of linkage between emissary palantir client instance and teh SYSTEM instance it came from

   

• [User #14587108]: I'm moving on. It's been a pleasure working with you guys & ladies!

  I really enjoyed supporting you all.  User #76911 and User #76913 are still here on the DARTTest-Software (commercial) team.

  Cheers!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: No DARTTest-Software (commercial) User Group tomorrow it will be back as scheduled in two weeks

  User #76912

• [User #1179751]: Forthcoming Tyrant Feature Upgrades (August 2015)

  Noah is working the following Tyrant items which he will deliver in August 2015:

  • UAC (User Account Control) automation
  • autologin w/o rebooting mimicking CTRL-ALT-DEL
  • documentation and presentation materials for UACUser Account Control and autologin w/o reboot
  • fix for GetOSVersion deprecation in newer versions of Windows (8+)
  • fix to Overmind so reserve_name/reserve_time fields are not cleared when resources are returned if those resources are in use during reservation (e.g. by a test or upsync)
  • addition of factors to autoplan command-line options

   

  Noah and Grant have also been working on a Tyrant unittest design to be discussed with the EDGEngineering Development Branch developers.

• [User #14587108]: JACAL training in Flag Room tomorrow July 14th from 9a-12noon

  If you want to participate in a "hands-on" way then bring a laptop which can be connected to DEVLAN and has ssh terminal emulator software such as putty, winscp or scp, a spreadsheet editor, and vsphere client.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Just for today DARTTest-Software (commercial) User Group meeting in room 9E52B from 3p-4p, Tuesday July 13th

  Be there or b^2

• [User #14587108]: DART will be shutdown from 7a - 8a Monday, July 13th for maintenance

  Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

• [User #14587108]: JACAL training this coming Tuesday 9a-12noon. Venue TBD

  If you want to participate in a "hands-on" way please bring a laptop that can be connected to DEVLAN.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART user group meeting from 1-2p, tomorrow, Tuesday 30 June. The venue is 9E52B the EDGEngineering Development Branch conference room

  I'm bringing cookies. You don't get a cookie unless you come!

• [User #14587108]: DART is up. Thanks for your patience

  --User #76912

• [User #14587108]: CORRECTION DARTTest-Software (commercial) will be down from 9p tonight until 10a tomorrow for server and switch maintenance

  DART will be down from 9p until 10a the next morning. Please try to purge your jobs before then. If not I will purge them at 9p.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Let us know as soon as you can if you need a particular PSPPersonal Security Product (Anti-Virus) loaded for on a Win 10 image.

  It takes a bit of turnaround so if you think you will need a particular PSPPersonal Security Product (Anti-Virus) loaded on a Win 10 image, let us know as soon as you can.

  Thanks!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: New Win 10 eval images are up.

  We got new 10 evals to replace the old ones.

• [User #14587108]: DART user group meeting from 1-2p, tomorrow Tuesday 16 June. The venue is changed from 9E52B to the IV&V lab

  I was nice and let another group use the room instead of us.  Email me if you want to be added to the meeting reminder on ICE.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART is now up thanks for your patience

  Please make sure your jobs are purged before then. Sorry for the inconvenience.

• [User #14587108]: DART is now up thanks for your patience

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down tomorrow morning 7a - 9a maintenance on the esxi server

  Sorry for the inconvenience

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Unreserved Overview Clones will be deleted tomorrow Upsync clones will not be deleted.

  Overview clones are the clones created by the users that end in the last four digits of their mac address and were created using the now broken clone feature in Overview (e.g. 00-39-vm_esxi8_esxi_win-7ult-sp1-en-x64-kaspis-20140922132843-00-13) I will not be deleting upsync clones which are clones created by the sysadmin and refreshed by imports.  These clones end in a single digit (e.g. 00-2d-vm_esxi8_esxi_win-xppro-sp3-en-x86-20150519073110-1). The Overview clones do not get updated and some of them are pretty old. 

  If there are overview clones you wish to keep, keep them in a reserved state or they may be subject to deletion.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART user group meeting from 1-2p. The venue is 9E52B the EDGEngineering Development Branch conference room.

  We have made it to the big time!

   Also email me on ICEIn-memory Code Execution if you want to be sent meeting reminders.

• [User #14587108]: DART is back up. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the interruption

  User #76912

• [User #1179751]: Updated Tyrant Documentation Available (2015-05-18)

  Updated Tyrant User and Administrator manuals  and release notes from the recent upgrade are available here:

  \\fs-01\share\DART\2015.05.18_DART_administrator_manual

  \\fs-01\share\DART\2015.05.18_DART_user_manual

  \\fs-01\share\DART\release_notes-2015-05-18

  Some highlights:

  • upgrades to network switching
  • testcase hang detection
  • usb_utils bugfixes and upgrades
  • many new tools available in tyutils (domain.py for creating domains in various language Windows servers and joining machines to those domains, traffic_utils for simulating ssh, smb, telnet traffic, etc., windbg.py, dbgview_utils.py, etc.)
    • many of these tools rely on other executables (pipelist.exe, dcpromo.exe, etc.) and none of these tools have been tested yet on devlan

   

• [User #14587108]: DART User group will meet tomorrow, May 19 @ 1p-2p in the IV&V lab. Our new DARTTest-Software (commercial) FTE, User #76914, will be there

  Come ready with questions for User #76923.  He started last week and has been helping us with configuration problems. He is a resource freely available to all of you for scripting/testplan issues.

• [User #14587108]: Dart Available

  The ESXI server has been rebooted all USBUniversal Serial Bus thumbdrives have been tested for availability and have been released for use. Have a Great Day.

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down from 0700 until 0930 tomorrow 15 May 2015

  We are rebooting the esxi server due to continuing usb issues.  If you absolutely HAVE to have DARTTest-Software (commercial) up during this time please let User #76927 know.  Please purge your jobs ahead of time.  If we have to take down the system and your jobs aren't purged you may experience trouble with your future tests. 

   

• [User #14587108]: DART has been updated on the high side. In order to ensure your tests run correctly please do an hg pull

  Let me know if you are having any issues.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Are there issues with win 8.1 images booting to the start screen? If so let User #76920 and I know about the specific image so we can troubleshoot

  I'd heard some rumbling that some of the 8.1 images were booting up to the start screen I've checked them on the low side and all of them are okay. So if some are doing that on the high side perhaps something is happening to them when they come over.

  Please let User #76916 and I know about specific images that are doing that.  If it's a win 8.0 image we know about that problem.  We are in the process of finding a solution to win 8 images booting to the start screen.

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down from 11a until the rest of the day Wednesday, May 13th for the software upgrade

  DART will be upgraded.  This is a change up originally it was supposed to be upgraded today.  As soon as I get a list of the fixes, I'll publish them.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: The DARTTest-Software (commercial) FTE will start working here on Monday, May 11th.

  His name is User #76918 (we will be calling him User #76930) so have all your questions ready.  The plan is that he will also be attending our usergroup meetings.  He will be sitting by me so feel free to start asking him questions.

   

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down for maintenance @ 1600 today, Friday May 8 DEVLAN will be down from 1800 - 2200 tonight

  We want to do some maintenance on the esxi server and we need to start it prior to the DEVLAN outage so we will be taking down DARTTest-Software (commercial) and the esxi server starting at 1600

  Thanks for your cooperation.  Please make sure you are off the system by 1600.  

• [User #14587108]: Devlan Dart Maintenance

  Devlan Dart will be down Friday 5/8/2015 from 1800 for 4 hours for maintenance.

  The esxi server will also be rebooted to attempt to unmountable resolve the thumb drive issue as part of the maintenance. 

  The Dart FTE will arrive Monday and be attending the 11:00 meeting.

  Devlan Dart will be down Tuesday 5/12/2015 for a software upgrade.

   

• [User #14587108]: User #76917 and I will both be gone Monday, April 26th. If you are experiencing any issues contact Infrastructure Support Branch

  I'll be back on Tuesday ready for any pitchforks and torches!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: User #76927 will be out April 23 thru May1, please see User #76912 if there are any issues

  Hope you all have a great week.

• [User #14587108]: 5 new 16GB thumbdrives now available on Devlan Dart

   The Sansdisk 4GB thumbdrives have been replaced by Kingston/Toshiba 16GB thumbdrives. They have been tested and are available for your use. If there are and questions or issues please feel free to ping myself or User #76912. Have a great day.   

• [User #14587108]: DART User Group meeting today @User #? in IV&V lab

  I'd like to get your opinion on how DARTTest-Software (commercial) is doing since the network adapter and storage upgrade.   We can also talk about various ideas on adding one or more esxi servers to DART.  Please bring up any other topic you'd like to discuss.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down for about an hour from 6p to 7p today for some maintenance.

  Thanks for your cooperation.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: They are doing a hardware change on DEVLAN it "shouldn't" affect DARTTest-Software (commercial) but just in case.

  We are still going through the NETAPP change for DEVLAN. DARTTest-Software (commercial) should be finished but they are moving some old DARTTest-Software (commercial) storage. So "cross your fingers" hopefully nothing will go down.

  Thanks for your patience!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART is up and operational. Let User #76912 or User #76927 know if you encounter any issues

  The new storage is up and so are the new 10Gig network interfaces.  We will be making one more network configuration change sometime this week. We will let you know when that happens.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: We are still making to changes to DARTTest-Software (commercial) to adjust to new storage. You should be able to run tests but be advised we may bring DARTTest-Software (commercial) down without little or no warning.

  Thanks to User #76927, User #76926 (aka "Junior"), User #1179825, and User #76929 (NetApp Guy). They hunted down the main issue that DARTTest-Software (commercial) had with the new storage but we are still in the process of testing DARTTest-Software (commercial) to make sure there are no "surprises".  We are aiming to be fully operational by Monday so Friday-Sunday we may be taking DARTTest-Software (commercial) down and up unexpectedly.

  Check the blog to see any status updates.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Use of Linux VMVirtual Machine machines

    The Dart Administrators need to know how much utilization there is of the Linux images. We have noticed that they rarely show up on our exports as images that have had updates applied therefore not imported into DEVLAN. Please let us know if this is an issue and we will work to resolve it.   Thank you

   

  moved by User #524297 to increase visibility

• [User #14587108]: DART is still down for the rest of the day. We are still in the process of moving the images from the old storage device to the new one.

  We've upgraded the network cards and the storage so it looks like there will be a big improvement in speed.  We are estimating that DARTTest-Software (commercial) will be down until tomorrow mid-day.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART User group meeting tomorrow April 7 sorry I missed it!

  I'll give you guys an update on what is happening on DARTTest-Software (commercial) hardware wise. I have the lame excuse of having a clock that was an hour behind so I got to the meeting at 1:55 instead of 12:55!

  We are still moving images over to the new storage so DARTTest-Software (commercial) will be down for today.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down Monday (April 6) & Tuesday (April 7) for hardware upgrades

  We are getting our NetApp storage system upgraded. It should improve performance a great deal.  At the user group tomorrow we will provide you with as much detail as we can.

  Thanks for your patience.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: User #76912 will be out next week 3/30-4/3 contact User #76927 if you have any issues

  I'll be out next week. If you are experiencing any issues with DARTTest-Software (commercial) contact User #76927

  Thanks and have a great week.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Added two new thumbdrives td-dart-esxi-thumbdrive-sandisk4_2 10.9.0.12:4.2 & td-dart-esxi-thumbdrive-toshiba1_1 10.9.0.12:1.1

  The Toshiba drive is a kington DataTraveler 101 Gen 2 USBUniversal Serial Bus 2.0 32GB which makes almost like one of the recommended thumbdrives for esxi.  We have them onhand so if they work out better than the sandisk thumbdrives we can start replacing them.

  Let me know what you think.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: usb_utils.py patch is available to be pulled down from the repository

  The DARTTest-Software (commercial) developers sent it up and I've committed it to the repository.  Here's the diff file of the differences usb_utils.diff.  If you are not interested in getting this change, then don't pull it down from the repo. I tested it with a thumbdrive and an 8.1 and 7 image. It worked. I can't say whether it worked better or not.  If you pull it down and use it let me know what you think. 

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART server will be coming down immediately March 16 2015 for a hardware upgrade. It will be down for approximately 2 hours do not start any new jobs and look for my announcement that it is back online.

  DART server will be coming down immediately March 16 2015 for a hardware upgrade. It will be down for approximately 2 hours do not start any new jobs and look for my announcement that it is back online. Thanks!

• [User #14587108]: User #76912 will be gone from Mar 4 - Mar 12. If you have issues please contact User #76927

  User #76921 will be the lone DARTer while I'm gone. Please let him know if there are any problems.

  There will still be a DARTTest-Software (commercial) User group meeting in the IV&V lab March 10 1p-2p

  See you soon!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: 5 new thumbdrives available on DART

  td-dart-esxi-thumbdrive-sandisk[1-5]

   

• [User #14587108]: DART User Group meeting on tomorrow @User #? in IV&V lab

  Again, I don't have an agenda but I'm bringing snacks.  The new DARTTest-Software (commercial) administrator, User #76915, will be there too.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: I'm taking the two sandisk thumbdrives offline at 4p today for about an hour

  If this is going to greatly interfere let me know.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: CORSAIR is back up and two more sandisk thumbdrives are available for testing. The two sandisks my go down briefly on Monday.

  So I can add one more thumbdrive to the system. I'll let you know.

   

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Still working on adding usbdrives. Corsair will be unavailable. I will try to give you all notice if I have to take DARTTest-Software (commercial) down.

  Adding thumbdrives did not go as easily as I thought.  What I'm doing shouldn't interfere with your tests other than making Corsair unavailable.

  Thanks for you patience

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART will be down all day Tuesday March 17th for a software upgrade

  The DARTTest-Software (commercial) developers are bringing us the DARTTest-Software (commercial) software upgrade.  If there is any problem with this being a down day please let me know ASAP. I'll have to coordinate with the DARTTest-Software (commercial) developers.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART may be sporadically up and down this afternoon after 2p

  I'm adding more thumbdrives to DARTTest-Software (commercial) so it may be down and your tests may or may not get zapped while I'm doing this.  In addition the corsair thumbdrive will be out of commission for a while.  So test at your own risk! If this is going to be a really big issue let me know, but if not, I'll do my best to get in get out and have DARTTest-Software (commercial) all the way up.

  Thanks for your cooperation!

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: vCenter issue is resolved let me know if you are still experiencing issues

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: We are having issues with the Vcenter server so you may experience problems with DART

  We are working on that issue right now and I'll let you know when we resolve it.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART Developer here today at my desk

  User #76919 is here all day and Grant will be here in the afternoon. Just text or come by if you need them to look at something.

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: Updated PSPs

  The following should be updated on the images: AVG, Avast, G-Data, F-Secure, ZoneAlarm, ESET, Kaspersky.  I'm working with User #76928 to track down some licensing issues on some others.  If you notice that there is a particular PSPPersonal Security Product (Anti-Virus) that's not updated, email or msg me, or add as a comment to this post.

• [User #14587108]: DART User Group meeting still on tomorrow @User #? in IV&V lab

  User #76925 and Grant won't be there this time,  User #76910 will be out on Thursday so email or mesg me if you want her to stop and answer questions.  I accidently erased my DARTTest-Software (commercial) contact list so if I haven't sent you an invite to the meeting, email or mesg me.

   

• [User #14587108]: Thumbdrives appear to be working I tested the two unreserved ones yesterday

  The Dart developer showed me how to run a test against the two thumbdrives that were unreserved. There is still a reserved one left, I don't know the status of that.

  If they still aren't working for you let me know exactly what is fubarring on them.

   

  User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART Developer will be here 13 January & 27 January let me know if you would like to ask her questions

  User #76922 one of the DARTTest-Software (commercial) Developers will be here 13 January and 27 January.  I will most likely monopolize her time the morning of the 13th but let me know by text or email if you want her to swing by and see you about any issues and what times you are available.

   

  -- User #76912

• [User #14587108]: DART User Group restarting Jan 13 @User #? in IV&V lab

  Meetings will be every other Tuesday at 1pm in the IV&V lab. If that starts to get too crowded, I'll reserve us another room for the following meetings.

  Send me an email if you'd like to be included in the meeting request. If I haven't sent you a meeting request and you are interested, please show up anyhow.

  User #76924 will be there for our first two meetings to answer questions.  I will probably take the first 5 minutes for Admin stuff but after that the meeting belongs to the users.

  If we get really organized we can publish an agenda but I'd like to see how these first two meetings go and the interest in them.

   

  --User #76912

• [User #14587108]: PSP 2015 updates coming soon

  I'm in the process of updating the AVAST, ESET, Kaspersky, G-Data, Trend Micro, Zone Alarm, McAfee, AVG, and F-Secure images with the 2015 software.  Getting the images updated and then moved up to the high side should take at least a week if not a bit more. Let me know if there is a particular PSPPersonal Security Product (Anti-Virus) that should be a priority.  I'm going to start with Kaspersky but I will leave the images labeled specifically "Kasp14" as 2014.  

  --User #76912

• [User #1179825]: vCenter and ESXi Upgrade

  vCenter and ESXi servers have been upgraded.  Hopefully this will resolve the networking issue.

  To connect to the new vCenter server, use "root" instead of "tester" for the user name and the same password.

   

• [User #1179751]: Dart is now on Jira

  An item that came up in the users forum today was tracking the issues we are having with Dart.  Because of this I've gone and made a JIRA instance for Dart which can be found at https://jira.devlan.net/browse/DART.  Please add any additional issues you may have, and also vote for any issues that affect you; this will help Bill keep track of everything.

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