Jenkins plugin - local tunnel

[andyfrith2]

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 tunnel
17:43:41 Tunnel is currently not running. Need to start one.
17:43:41 Waiting for the tunnel to establish a connection.

17:44:47 FATAL: Failed to start Local Tunnel
17:44:47 java.lang.Error: Failed to start Local Tunnel
17:44:47 	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cbt_jenkins.CBTBuildWrapper.startLocalTunnel(CBTBuildWrapper.java:219)
17:44:47 	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.cbt_jenkins.CBTBuildWrapper.setUp(CBTBuildWrapper.java:309)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:157)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:504)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1894)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
17:44:47 	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:428)

Is there any advice as to how I can debug and fix this?

Thanks

Andy

[AlexKaras]

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.

[andyfrith2]

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.

[AlexKaras]

Hi,

Have you followed steps described in the https://support.smartbear.com/crossbrowsertesting/docs/integrations/jenkins.html help article?

Also quote from it: "Optional: сheck Use Local Tunnel to run tests on webpages behind your firewall. (The CrossBrowserTesting Node.js Tunnel must be installed globally)."

[andyfrith2]

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.

[AlexKaras]

@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?

[sonya_m]

@AlexKaras Thanks again, Alex, I've informed the doc team, they'll look into it.