How to add testing hosts in ALM?


The testing hosts is the kind of functionality which HP ALM provides, so that you don't need to engage your machine for any automation scripts execution. You can define any local machines or servers as testing hosts.

It will help you to have the scripts and results in HP ALM itself and also don't need to look for any spare machine or wait till you leave office to start the execution.

Most of the big organizations provides the testing hosts to there projects teams so that these hosts can be shared across projects. So in these cases, you just need to contact the centralized team in your organization to add those testing hosts in your project.

But if the organization doesn't have a centralized pool of testing hosts then you can define your own testing hosts and use it for any automation test execution.

1. Go to Testing hosts in under Lab Resources in HP ALM.

2.  Click on new testing hosts button and fill in the details as shown in below screenshot:



3. After adding the new hosts, the registration of the host is required to be used for the execution purpose. The testing host registration should be done only after HP ALM lab service configuration on testing host.

4. You need to install the HP ALM lab service on the testing host added in above steps. This will complete the registration process for testing hosts. Also the lab service is required to be running on testing hosts for your script to be executed on the added testing hosts.

For installation of lab service, you can look into help page in ALM.

5. After configuring lab service on testing hosts, the registration of the testing hosts can be approved manually by clicking "Approve Registration" button.

6. You can also Approve the host automatically by setting the "Registration Auto Approval" flag as Y in lab administration.

Please let me know if these posts are helpful and if you need help on any other topic.


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