Using the Deployment Tester Interactively from SAS Management Console :: SAS(R) 9.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide, Second Edition

Launching Deployment Tester Tests from SAS Management Console

To run the Deployment Tester interactively from SAS Management Console:

Start the Deployment Tester server on the host machine for each component that you want to test.
Log on to SAS Management Console as a user who is a member of the Management Console: Advanced role or the SAS Administrators group. On the Plug-ins tab, expand the Application Manager node and the Deployment Tester node.
In the Deployment Tester tree, locate the node for the Deployment Tester server where you want to run tests. The server is identified by the host machine name and the port (for example, server.mycompany.com:10021). Expand the server node to see the list of available tests, as shown in the following example:

Tip
If no tests appear, this might mean that the Deployment Tester server has not been started.
Right-click the test that you want to run, and select Run Test Suite. (Or if you want to run all of the tests that are available on this machine, right-click the node for the Deployment Tester server and select Run All Test Suites.)
Some tests require special user credentials. If you are prompted for credentials, enter the appropriate user ID and password. The password will be encrypted using SAS proprietary 32-bit (sas002) encryption. For details about required credentials, see Deployment Tester Test Suites: Descriptions and Requirements.

Test suites run as background processes, so you can perform other work while a test suite is running. When the tests are completed, the results are displayed in the right panel.

When you are finished executing tests, it is recommended that you stop the Deployment Tester server.

View Deployment Tester Results in SAS Management Console

When you run a Deployment Tester test suite interactively from SAS Management Console, the test results appear as soon as the test is completed. Each result is listed in the Results tree under the Deployment Tester plug-in. When you select a result in the tree, the Test Suite Results report appears in the right pane, as shown in the following example:

Sample results from Deployment Tester in SAS Management Console

A green icon with a check mark ( White check mark on a green background

) indicates that the test completed successfully.

CAUTION:

If you right-click a test result in the Results tree and select “Close Results,” the result files are deleted from the tree and the associated documents are deleted from the file system.

To view the output reports for a test, click the links on the results panel. Depending on which test you ran, you can view results by clicking the test name, View stdout from test suite, View stderr from test suite, or View output files from test suite.

If you need assistance in interpreting test results, contact SAS Technical Support.

Where Deployment Tester Result Files Are Stored When Tests Are Run from SAS Management Console

The result files that you can view from SAS Management Console are saved in the following paths in the file system:

Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 systems: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\SAS\SASDeploymentTesterSASMCPlugin\2.1\Reports\yyyymmdd\report_test-suite-name
Other Windows systems: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\SAS\SASDeploymentTesterSASMCPlugin\2.1\Reports\yyyymmdd\report_test-suite-name
UNIX: user’s-home-directory/SAS/SASDeploymentTesterSASMCPlugin/2.1/Reports/yyyymmdd/report_test-suite-name

Note: When you right-click a test result in the Results tree and select Close Results, the result files are deleted from the tree and from the paths in the preceding list.

Permanently Saving Deployment Tester Test Results

To create a permanent record of tests that have been run, you can save the results to a location other than the user’s home directory. To save the results of a test, right-click the test in the Results tree and make one of the following selections:

Select Save Results to Folder if you want to save the results as a collection of loose files. In the dialog box that appears, navigate to the path where the results are to be saved. Then create a folder in which to store the files, select the new folder, and click Save.
Select Save Results as Zip File if you want to save the results in a compressed file. This feature is helpful if you want to send the test results to another party such as SAS Technical Support.

In the dialog box that appears, you might want to navigate to a different directory before you save the file. To do so, select All Files in the Files of type field. After navigating to the correct directory, change Files of type back to Zip files (*.zip). Then enter a filename and click Save.

Deleting (Closing) Deployment Tester Test Results

Periodically, you might want to delete old Deployment Tester results from the Results tree in SAS Management Console and from your home directory. If there is a chance that you will need to refer to the results in the future, be sure to first save the results to another location, as described in the preceding topic.

To delete Deployment Tester results from the Results tree and from the users’s home directory, select one or more results in the tree. Then right-click the mouse and select Close Results.