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andyfrith2
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5 years ago

Jenkins plugin - local tunnel

Hi,   I am trialling using the Jenkins CBT plugin and want to use the local tunnel with it, however it fails and doesn't give a very useful error message:     17:43:40 Going to use default tunne...
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AlexKaras
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5 years ago

Hi,

 

> Jenkins plugin - local tunnel

Is Jenkins installed in the same network you are working in and are you trying to open a tunnel from Jenkins to the same local network?

You may start with consulting with your sysadmins - some networks do not allow opening VPN tunnels to them from the machine that is part of this network. Some other restrictions may also exist that your admins are aware of.

Create Support ticket via the https://support.smartbear.com/crossbrowsertesting/message/ form if sysadmins cannot help.

 

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andyfrith2
New Contributor
5 years ago

Thanks for your response.

 

Yes I'm trying to open the tunnel on the same network as Jenkins.

 

I noticed looking in the plugin code that it is looking for the embedded tunnel at 

"/cbt_tunnels/v0.9.3";

however I don't see this installed on my Jenkins install, so perhaps that is the issue? It sounds like the plugin should handle this automatically, but perhaps I should try the option to manually install the cbt_tunnel module and provide the path to it.

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      andyfrith2
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      5 years ago

      Thanks Alex, I hadn't seen that page before and it contradicts the documentation for the plugin I was reading at 

       

      https://plugins.jenkins.io/crossbrowsertesting/

       

      which states:

       

      Optional: Check Use Local Tunnel to run tests on webpages behind your firewall. The CBT NodeJS Tunnel is embedded into the plugin and does not need to be install on the Jenkins Server. 

       

      Hence I was expecting it to work out of the box. I would prefer to not be installing NPM modules directly onto Jenkins so I am currently trying by using the NPM module imported into our tests instead.

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        AlexKaras
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        5 years ago

        TanyaYatskovska , sonya_m :

        > I hadn't seen that page before and it contradicts the documentation for the plugin I was reading at

        Ladies, could you please ask technical writers of the appropriate team to take a look and make documentation to be consistent?