We have the need to run synthetic testing on our fat clients and report the results back to our Solarwinds Orion installation.
The application in question is a GUI application running on Windows 8.1 tablets, which was created with Modern App for Windows. It connects via NetTCP back to some front end servers here in our corporate headquarters.
What we need is a tool that would be able to sign in to the application, do one or two simple transactions, and then sign out…reporting on success/fail for the login, and on each action.
Back before everyone switched over to web pages and Java, there were literally dozens of these sorts of apps. The way they worked was to start a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program which was capable of recording keystrokes. Then, you would key a special code to begin recording, sign into your application, and perform some actions. To halt recording, you’d key another special keycode sequence. Once you had a recorded sequence, you could simply activate your recorded keystrokes (the “script”) and run your application as many times as you saw fit, entirely automated.
I went looking for such a mechanism on Solarwinds.com and was surprised to find that I couldn't find any.
Does anyone know if Orion has such a method? Perhaps as a sub-set of another toolset?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
--Dave
