Hi, You can reply to both (we prefer that all emails include the mailing list so that they are included in the archive).
The PROCESS START ... WAIT request is not the same as what STAX is doing.
Since you specified the WAIT option, it is a synchronous request. When you
run a <process> in STAX, it submits the PROCESS START asynchronously (so
that there are not a bunch of STAX threads just waiting for remote
processes to complete). That means that when the process finishes, STAFProc
on the remote machine attempts to notify the STAX service machine that the
process has completed, but if that notification fails, then even though the
remote process has completed, the STAX service will never receive the
notification that it has completed.
Does this issue happen with any <process>? For example, if you have a
simple STAX job that does:
<stax>
<defaultcall function="main"/>
<function name="main">
<process>
<location>'target-machine'</location>
<command>'ls'</command>
</process>
</function>
</stax>
Does this also hang?
On both machines (the STAX service machine and the target machine where the
process is running), can you show the output from:
On the target machine:
STAF stax-service-machine MISC WHOAREYOU
STAF stax-service-machine MISC WHOAMI
On the STAX service machine:
STAF target-machine MISC WHOAREYOU
STAF target-machine MISC WHOAMI
Thanks,
David
David Bender 11501 Burnet Rd. Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315
STAF/STAX Development Bldg. 903-5B002 (363-5315)
Austin, TX ITN: 23635315
IBM Software Group, 78758-3400 Email: bda...@us.ibm.com
WPLC
From: Zhe Li <zhe...@lavasoft.com>
To: David Bender/Austin/i...@ibmus
Cc: "staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: 08/03/2010 09:21 AM
Subject: RE: [staf-users] STAX fails to receive response from a finished
process command.
Sorry it was my first time using mailing list, should I reply to you or to
staf-us...@lists.sourceforge.net?
I suspected that in the beginning. But it turned out that staf
<stax-machine> PING PING works. Also if I execute the process command in
command-line interface. it works. For example:
I tried to run:
staf <stax-machine> PROCESS START COMMAND "/usr/bin/vmrun" PARMS list WAIT
and it works fine. But the same command does not work in STAX, it just
hangs.
Regards,
Zhe Li
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________________________________________
From: David Bender [bda...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 4:07 PM
To: Zhe Li
Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [staf-users] STAX fails to receive response from a finished
process command.
This is most likely a network issue, where the machine where the process is
executing can't communicate with the STAX service machine to inform it that
the process has completed. On the target machine, try running "STAF
<stax-machine> PING PING". If it fails with an RC 16, then see section
3.1.4 "Why can't my STAF machines communicate?" in the STAF FAQ:
http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/STAFFAQ.htm
Thanks,
David
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STAF/STAX Development
IBM Software Group, WPLC
11501 Burnet Rd.
Bldg. 903-5B002
Austin, TX 78758-3400
Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315 (363-5315)
ITN: 23635315
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[cid:1__=09BBFDE7DFDEC2D48f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com]Zhe Li ---08/03/2010
08:48:30 AM---Hello everyone! About two weeks ago, our STAX script stopped
working. It seems it executed the comma
From:
Zhe Li <zhe...@lavasoft.com>
To:
"staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date:
08/03/2010 08:48 AM
Subject:
[staf-users] STAX fails to receive response from a finished process
command.
________________________________
Hello everyone!
About two weeks ago, our STAX script stopped working. It seems it executed
the command correctly, but could not be able to receive the response from
the target machine. So even after the command is executed on the target
machine, STAX still thinks it is still launching hangs there. I made a
simple script to try it out but with no luck.
test.xml
----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE stax SYSTEM "stax.dtd">
<stax>
<defaultcall function="start" />
<function name="start">
<function-map-args>
<function-optional-arg name="image" default
="'/home/zhe/Harddisk_500G/winxp_pro/Windows XP Professional.vmx'">
The image location of the virtual machine.
</function-optional-arg>
</function-map-args>
<testcase name="'test'" mode="'strict'">
<sequence>
<process name="'test1'">
<location>'10.0.1.134'</location>
<command>'/usr/bin/vmrun'</command>
<parms>'start "%s"' % image</parms>
<stdout>'stdout.txt'</stdout>
<stderr mode="'stdout'" />
<returnstdout/>
<console use="'same'"/>
</process>
<if expr="RC != 0">
<sequence>
<log level="'error'">STAXResult</log>
<tcstatus result="'fail'" />
</sequence>
<else>
<tcstatus result="'pass'" />
</else>
</if>
</sequence>
</testcase>
</function>
</stax>
>From STAX monitor I could see STAX stopped at this testcase and hanged
there while the VM was already powered on.
I tried reinstalled STAF, STAX and JRE on both machines but it still didn't
work. Could anyone please tell me what might be wrong? Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Zhe Li
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Lavasoft
http://www.lavasoft.com
Odinsgatan 10 411 03 Gothenburg Sweden
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