How to maintain Selenium Grid?

I have many VMs which are used as part of Grid. Some as RC and some as Hub. Due to the large number of VMs that is being used, it is a big task to maintain the grid now. To change the RC to point to a different hub, I will have to

1. login to that machine

2. kill the current RC

3. run the java command again with a different hub URL

Yes, I can use a batch script to restart all the machines. But what if I just want to change just one machine?

Is it possible to create an application 开发者_StackOverflow中文版using JAVA RMI which can run the required commands to kill, start, restart the RCs or Hub? Has anyone ever tried to create such an application?

you should have a look at selenium grid2.0. It's been designed with exactly what you ask in mind. You can create your own proxy extending either the selenium1 ( RC ) or selenium2 ( webdriver protocol ), and implement a list of interfaces that will allow to react to certain events.

You could for instance :

• have one unique hub controlling all the nodes and refine the routing by implementing the matcher.

• update the grid console to have some "reconfigure node" functionality directly there

• add some rules on each node, for instance restart the VM and the server within it automatically every X test or when a specific event is detected.

I wouldn't start a RMI based solution. If you have VMs, you should have access to the VM API for the solution you choose, and you can use that to revert to a known clean state and restart from there each time. That will ensure you don't have left over crashed browsers and things like that.

thanks, François

i know this is old question. How about setting puppet on your VM so you just need to specify one config on master.