Perhaps Symantec's nosleep <http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/readynosleepexe-prevents-screensaver-and-pc-locking> could help you?
-- -- Aldrin Leal, <[email protected]> Master your EC2-fu! Get the latest ekaterminal public beta http://www.ingenieux.com.br/products/ekaterminal/ On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rob Mandeville < [email protected]> wrote: > Our QA team is using the TestComplete GUI testing software to test our > web applications. TestComplete drives a Windows console session, > effectively emulating mouse and keyboard, to test how a given browser > responds to our code. > > > > The problem that we’ve been having is that there is a password-protected > screensaver installed on the Windows machine for security purposes. As a > result, the test launches on a locked Windows VM, then hangs until timeout > and fails. > > > > While we are working with the admins to get an exception there so that we > don’t have the screensaver, this may be difficult—this company has had > decades of experience building medical devices with embedded software, but > as a company we’re still learning how to do web applications. > > > > I have also advised the QA team to start their test suites by using > TestComplete to log into the VM console, then end them by logging out of > it. It’s unclear whether that will be possible. > > > > The Jenkins slave node is running on the Windows VM. Is there a Jenkins > way, given the proper credentials, to log into the console or authenticate > past the screensaver before launching a build? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > --Rob > > > > ------------------------------ > This e-mail and the information, including any attachments it contains, > are intended to be a confidential communication only to the person or > entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is > privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of > this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy > the original message. > > Thank you. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
