Hi Sharon,
THanks again for the info. Are respools immutable, or do they need to be
re-added every time star is restarted?
-T
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Sharon Lucas <luc...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, one of the services that STAF provides (with your typical STAF
> install) is the Resource Pool (ResPool) service. The purpose of the ResPool
> service is to manage exclusive access to the entries within resource pools.
> For more information, see section "8.14 Resource Pool (ResPool) Service" in
> the STAF User's Guide at
> http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAFUG.htm#HDRRESSRV. I think the
> ResPool service is what you're looking for.
>
> C:\>STAF local RESPOOL HELP
> Response
> --------
> *** RESPOOL Service Help ***
>
> CREATE POOL <PoolName> DESCRIPTION <Pooltext>
> DELETE POOL <PoolName> CONFIRM [FORCE]
> QUERY POOL <PoolName>
> REQUEST POOL <PoolName> [TIMEOUT <Number>[s|m|h|d|w]]
> [FIRST | RANDOM | ENTRY <Entry>]
> [GARBAGECOLLECT <Yes | No>]
> ADD POOL <PoolName> ENTRY <Value> [ENTRY <Value>]...
> REMOVE POOL <PoolName> ENTRY <Value> [ENTRY <Value>]... CONFIRM [FORCE]
> RELEASE POOL <PoolName> ENTRY <Value> [FORCE]
> LIST [POOLS | SETTINGS]
> VERSION
> HELP
>
> Note that another STAF service that allows you to synchronize access to a
> particular resource or to synchronize two or more tasks is the Semaphore
> (SEM) service. The SEM service is one of the internal STAF services that
> allows you to manipulate and manage two kinds of semaphores:
>
> - A *mutex* semaphore allows you to synchronize access to a particular
> resource. You may request exclusive access of the semaphore, release
> exclusive access of the semaphore, query the semaphore, and delete the
> semaphore.
> - An *event* semaphore is a signaling mechanism used to synchronize two
> or more tasks. You may post an event semaphore to signal that the event has
> happened, reset an event semaphore in preparation for the next event, pulse
> the event semaphore (which performs an atomic post and reset on the
> semaphore), wait on an event semaphore, delete an event semaphore, and
> query
> an event semaphore.
>
>
> For more information, see section "8.15 Semaphore (SEM) Service" in the
> STAF User's Guide at
> http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAFUG.htm#HDRSEMSRV.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sharon Lucas
> IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
> (512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
>
>
>
> *Tennis Smith <ten...@tripit.com>*
>
> 01/26/2010 05:02 PM
> To
> staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> cc
> Subject
> [staf-users] Possible Use For STAF/STAX?
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Right now, I'm using *CruiseControl*<http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/>
> with selenium to drive a collection of php-based browser tests.
>
> There are numerous problems w/this setup. The biggest one is finding some
> kind of resource control mechanism. That is, some way to allocate resources
> as needed for tests from a common pool of resources.
>
> For example, if I want to start a test which uses a windows-based browser,
> I need to know if a windows machine is available. Its up the the *user* to
> know that -- the harness has no dynamic knowledge of topology. This makes
> parallel tests extremely difficult.
>
> Is that possible with STAF/STAX?
>
> --
>
> Tks,
> -T
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