Prerequisite Scanner Team Sprint Demo
Prerequisite Scanner Sprint 5 Demo
IBM Prerequisite Scanner Team
June, 2012
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Key Accomplishments
 PRS refresh publish on iRAM to support KUD and zEnterprise
 osdp installation prereq check single server support prototype
(Story 26525 & 27406)
 Feature Request: As a TCR user I would need PRS to detect
the 'localhost' name defined in a machine (Story 26121)
 Test automation stage 2
(Story 26622, 26621, 26620, 26619 & 25276)
 Automation engine setup – leverage jazz build engine
 Run tests after building test cases for a platform
 Health check scenario investigation (Story 26446)
 Build improvement (Story 21469 & 24304)
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Demo 1 – TCR Feature Request
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os.localhostInHostsFile
A valid HOSTS file to pass this check should have at least 1 entry to satisfy:
1) starts with ipaddress 127.0.0.1
2) in the same entry, at least one of the column is "localhost“.
Config File Entries :
os.localhostInHostsFile=True
os.localhostInHostsFile=False
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/etc/hosts File Entries
Following are the supported entries in the /etc/hosts file
Example: (Supports the below formats)
 127.0.0.1 localhost
 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain #Alias name
 127.0.0.1
localhost
# Tab Space
 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
localhost
 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

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os.localhostInHostsFile Results
[root@aclinux08 meti]# ./prereq_checker.sh DMO detail
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Version: 1.2.0.90
Build : 20120605
OS name: Linux
Machine Information
Machine Name: aclinux08.tivlab.raleigh.ibm.com
Serial number: LKZRA6R
DMO - Prerequisite Scanner Demo [version 0750000]:
Property
Result
Found
Expected
========
======
=====
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os.localhostInHostsFile
PASS
True
True
Prerequisite Scanner Overall Result: PASS
Details also available in /root/meti/result.txt
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Prerequisite Scanner Team Sprint Demo
Test Automation – Stage 2 Demo
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Ant based test automation framework
Ant is used to:
- perform the test build
- run PRS commands
- run Junit tests
- collect the logs
Junit tests are written to perform comparison between
actual and expected results.
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Test project in RTC – Directory structure:
Project Name: com.ibm.tivoli.prc.test
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Multi-stage development approach:
Stage 1 - Completed
• develop the Ant based test framework
• manually build the test distribution zip on local
Windows machine
• manually run tests using Ant/Junit on each of the test
machines
• limited to a few basic tests on Linux and Windows
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Multi-stage development approach:
Stage 2 – Completed (today's demo)
• allocate and configure a dedicated test machine for
running the test builds
•install and configure the Jazz build engine
•configure build definition so test builds can be run
from RTC similar to dev builds
•configure the Ant build file to run the Junit tests on that
machine after successful test build
•additional Junit tests added
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Multi-stage development approach:
Future enhancements – Stage 3 +
• ability to run tests on remote target machines
including some control over which targets to run
• develop additional tests
• ability to run one specific test or a group of tests
• view html reports directly from RTC ?
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What is PRS
IBM Prerequisite Scanner
A lightweight and easy-to-use scanning tool to automate prerequisite checks
for single or multiple products in a solution
Key Benefits & Differentiator
 Automated and standardized prerequisite checking solution across
products and deployment types
 Simplicity of use and lightweight solution
 Improve TTV, with ready-to-use out-of-the-box predefined checks
 Extensibility to expand coverage easily in the field
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Completed sprint 5 stories
As a end user, I want a quick reference to install and run Prerequisite Scanner to scan my target environments (27402)
Story: New cfg files for TPAE 7.5.1 and updates to existing 7.5.0 cfg files (28195)
Story: Refresh build 20120426-1509 for ITM agents team to include fix for defect 27689 (27722)
Story: end of sprint driver regression and documentation update (27551)
Story: as KUD agent team, we need a PRS release to support our June release (27199)
Story: Configure the CVT project: com.ibm.tivoli.prc.test to run the tests for that platform after the build (26622)
Story: Configure the CVT project: com.ibm.tivoli.prc.test to build/run on the Jazz build engine (26621)
Story: Install Jazz build engine on CVT build machine. (26620)
Story: Allocate and build a test machine to run the Jazz build engine for building and running the CVT tests. (26619)
Story: as PRS tester, I would like to improve test by adding additional automated test cases coverage (25276)
Story: Refresh iRAM 1.1.1.10 image with new zEnterprise Monitoring agent (KZE) configuration file (27624)
Story: Configure the Linux build machine to directly copy PRS builds to GSA instead of acwin20 (24304)
Story: Allocate and configure a Windows machine for the build process (21469)
Story: Restructure prc.windows.test build.xml to perform PRS install once rather than every time a test is run (27344)
Story: As a developer, I want to post sprint level builds to Boulder for Transparent Dev evaluation (26468)
Story: License and COO need to be updated for 1.2 (27200)
As an admin installing OSDP, I need to check for DB2 and WAS prereqs if not already installed (27399)
Story: as osdp and servicesteam, I would like to understand the design and approach that how PRS support prereq checks
(27406)
Story: as osdp and services team, I would like to see and try the stage 1 (single server only) cfg files (26525)
Feature Request: As a TCR user I would need PRS to detect the 'localhost' name defined in a machine (26121)
Story: Investigate utilizing PRS as a Health Checker (26446)
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