Starting / stopping appium server on remote machine

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I have a test script which performs this flow:

  1. Start appium server from code (script)
  2. Create android driver
  3. Perform test
  4. Stop appium server from code

When I run it locally on 127.0.01 it works fine,
The problem is when I am trying to run the test on another machine.

I have two issues:

  1. When I am trying to start server on remote machine (see log)

Going to execute start appium server: cmd /c C://appium//Appium//node.exe C://appium//Appium//node_modules\appium\bin\appium.js --address 192.168.13.195 --port 4723
e[33mwarne[39m: Appium support for versions of node < 0.12 has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade!
e[31merrore[39m: Couldn’t start Appium REST http interface listener. Requested address is not available.
2015-11-23 16:36:34,428 INFO [main] (Drivers.java:329) - Trying to set ANDROID driver
org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: A new session could not be created. (Original error: Requested a new session but one was in progress) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 209 milliseconds
Build info: version: ‘2.42.2’, revision: ‘6a6995d31c7c56c340d6f45a76976d43506cd6cc’, time: ‘2014-06-03 10:52:47’
System info: host: ‘QTVR-AII015’, ip: ‘192.168.23.43’, os.name: ‘Windows 7’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘6.1’, java.version: ‘1.7.0_79’
Driver info: io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

  1. In the stopping script there is no possibility to stop remotely (no ip / port in script)

cmd /c taskkill /F /IM node.exe

Thanks for the help

2

Is there another Appium process running? Take a look in the Task Manager & see. Maybe something is not getting stopped properly?

3

Hey…
No, there is no appium or java process open…
Is starting the server from code on remote machine supported?
And if yes, how to close from code the server on a remote machine as well? (there is no ip / port )

4

Ah, now I understand. AFAIK there is no way to start the remote server from Appium. If I were you I would code up a start/stop method (using SSH) and run it that way.

5

Thanks…
Do you have some links / examples that will help?
I would appreciate it :smile:

6

One more thing, I am working on Android / Windows, does SSH gives a solution?

7

I have no idea what programming language you are using.

8

Programming language : Java
OS ob remote server and running server: Windows
Platform : Android

9

Ok, my knowledge of Windows is fairly limited. Does it have a native SSH server or will you need to install something like Cygwin? Regardless, your first move is to get a working SSH server on the remote machine.

Once that’s done, you need to figure out which of the many SSH libraries in Java you’d like to use. There is a good discussion with some coding examples here:

You need to add methods to your code that use these libraries, connect to the remote machine, issue commands, etc.