How to create multiple custum test under one column

[thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com]

Hi,

I want to do some application tests on several servers. All these test 
should be under one column named "app". Every test is unique for one 
server. So test "app" on "server1" is different from "app" on server2. All 
these test run remotely on the hobbit server, not on the destination 
servers.

For now I wrote a test-script for every test and define a unique testname 
for the bbhost file for every test-script. In the script I reported to the 
"app" column. Works fine, but I have to include every test-script in the 
hobbitlaunch file and so all these tests run simultaneously, resulting in 
a big number of processes on the hobbit server. 

So I  think of writing _one_ testscript for the "app" test and let this 
script decide which subscript should be run for each host. So all the 
different tests would be run under one master test script and so I 
hopefully get only one process.

   BBHTAG=app        # What we put in bb-hosts to trigger this test
   COLUMN=app           # Name of the column, often same as tag in 
bb-hosts

   TEMPFILE_OUTPUT=$BBTMP/$BBHTAG.output.tmp
   TEMPFILE=$BBTMP/$BBHTAG.tmp
   $BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $BBHTAG | while read L
   do
      echo "found hosts: $L"
      rm $TEMPFILEOUTPUT >/dev/null 2>&1
      set $L    # To get one line of output from bbhostgrep
      HOSTIP="$1"
      MACHINEDOTS="$2"
      MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'`

      COLOR=green
      echo "Application test on $MACHINEDOTS" > $TEMPFILE

      if "$MACHINE" == "server1"
         . apptest_server1.sh
      fi
      if "$MACHINE" == "server2"
         . apptest_server2.sh
      fi
      MSG=`cat $TEMPFILE_OUTPUT | fold -s -w 100`

      if [ $DEBUG = TRUE ]
      then
        echo "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` $MSG"
      else
        $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` $MSG"
      fi
      rm $TEMPFILE_OUTPUT >/dev/null 2>&1
    done

    exit 0


What do you think of this method? Maybe you have a better idea?

Thank you 
Thorsten Erdmann


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