Questions tagged [testing]

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Could somebody that has worked with ePolicy Orchestrator in VMWare provide a high level overview of the roles in the stack?

E policy Orchestrator (EPO) is a McAfee product that manages AV MOVE apis. The EPO server works in conjunction with ESX and vcenter. VISUALLY I don't see the workflow of this entire process very clearly. Individually I think I get a general idea of…
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Cannot kitchen init as non-root

I am trying to use test-kitchen, a tool to test chef (etc) cookbooks with virtual machines. However when following the guide and doing kitchen init --driver=kitchen-vagrant, I get the following error: create .kitchen.yml append …
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systemd upgrade frozen on "removing any startup links for /etc/init.d/udev-mtab"

I am having an issue upgrading my VPS which runs latest Debian, I decided to switch to testing branch to be able to use OpenSSH 6.7 (the current stable branch only brings 6.0 which lacks many ciphers and important to me functions). And so after…
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How can I verify that my PAM configuration works as expected

I'm trying to setup a vsftpd server in a virtual machine and all I can ever get from it is an authentication error (530 Login incorrect). Since I've tried to configure it using virtual users with PAM, I'm wondering if my pam configuration is…
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Best way to back up a system state for product testing?

I have a test system that requires a lot of setup to install the product I am testing. While testing it is possible degrade the system. I am looking for a way to go back to a point on the system where I have verified that everything is configured…
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Test site for evaluation of security solutions

I need to create testbed for security solution. The plan is to set up webserver with some sort of web application running on it, hook up security solution, perform DDoS attack on web server and see if security solution can handle the attack. I am…
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How can I determine Breaking point of my Web application using JMeter?

How can I determine Breaking point of my Web application using JMeter? I have executed the JMeter Testplan with different concurrent users load. EX. 300 users(0% error), 400 users(7% error in a sample, 5% error in another sample), 500 users(more…
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Webserver load test

Is there any way to simulate 1000 or so visitors accessing our server? We have undergone a complete app re-write and re-structuring. We had a very optimized Tomcat server, and are moving to a Glassfish back-end server with an Apache front-end. …
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Command Equivalent to Reseating a Network Cable

I'm remotely accessing a network where I'm testing two separate dhcp servers where: 1) Both dhcp servers are on the same subnet. 2) The dhcp servers do not have overlapping ip pools. 3) Each dhcp server has its own static ip address. My testing…
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When moving a server from behind a firewall into a DMZ, should you move a test server first?

We have to move a server from within the firewall to a DMZ (not a true DMZ, but a space that's between 2 firewalls. Is it typically a good idea, when moving a server in this fashion, to stand up another machine with the target IP to test the…
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Testing and workflow capabilities keep failing

My testing and workflows are failing. The workflow fails for this reason. But I have the TFS build service on the environment and the agent has the green light beside it. The testing fails for this reason. I have the test controller on the TFS…
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Print Out Redirect URL without Actually Redirecting

I have set up a server that is a clone of our production server that we want to use as a test server for testing our redirector. Importantly, we don't want to actually redirect to these urls like we do on our production machine. Instead we just want…
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How to generate test data from an sql query and a result set?

I am using an oracle database and want to generate test data from a live database, but I do not want to copy the whole database content. Given a database DB(S, D) consisting of the database schema S (everything described with DDL (tables, columns,…
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Automated Tests for System Configuration

In software development, i like to do tests. But are there any useful frameworks for automated tests for system configurations? I think like you may be able to test a Backup-MX configuration: - whitebox test: domain should be in relay domains,…
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Port Address Translation via Local Desktop

Recommendations for how I might configure Windows and Macs to perform port address translation locally. Need to test a web service that sits on port 99. The client application I am testing (think device simulator) will not allow me to hit a port,…
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