Supress windows gui/output via Jenkins job

2014-01-08 Thread david.doughty 
Hi

I'm working with our Siebel development team with the aim of automating some of 
their build/release practices; currently they use a utility siebdev.exe, which 
provides a facility to compile/export/import data between Siebel databases.

The problem appears to be that running it via Jenkins blows a fuse throwing 
an application error in the windows event log

I suspect that this is something to do with the utility flashing up a gui while 
it performs some of its tasks in the background.

It would appear that the utility doesn't have a silent option.

I had a look at the Xvfb plugin and that would be ideal; if only it worked for 
windows

So, the question finally is; is there any way to supress/redirect the gui 
output via Jenkins on a windows slave?

dD


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Re: Supress windows gui/output via Jenkins job

2014-01-08 Thread JonathanRRogers 
On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:49:13 AM UTC-5, david@barclays.com 
wrote:

 So, the question finally is; is there any way to supress/redirect the gui 
 output via Jenkins on a windows slave?


I don't use Jenkins on Windows but I'm going to go out on a limb and say 
that I'm pretty sure Jenkins doesn't have any Windows-specific way of 
dealing with GUI programs. You're probably going to have to run Jenkins as 
a user with permission to interact with the desktop, whether that's the 
single regular desktop or a remote desktop session.

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Re: Supress windows gui/output via Jenkins job

2014-01-08 Thread blaz 
Since Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 services cannot interact with 
desktop.
You will have to configure slave to perform auto login and start slave as 
desktop application.
This was discussed a while back. I think it was related to executing 
Selenium tests on Windows machine.

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