Local (Former Client)

• Autotest Client Quick Start
• Client Control files
  • Simple Jobs
  • External tests
  • Flow control
  • System information collection
  • Using the profilers facility
  • Creating filesystems
  • Rebooting during a job
  • Running multiple tests in parallel
• Control file specification
  • Naming your control files
  • Variables
  • Example
• Test modules development
• Adding tests to autotest
  • setup
  • run_once
  • postprocess_iteration
  • Additional test methods
  • Adding your own test
• Using and developing job profilers
  • Setup
  • Initialize
  • Start
  • Stop
  • Report
  • Adding your own profiler
• Linux distribution detection
• Quickly detecting the Linux distribution
• The unknown Linux distribution
• Writing a Linux distribution probe
  • Checking the distrution name only
  • Checking the distribution name and version numbers
  • Probe Scores
  • Registering your own probes
• API Reference
  • LinuxDistro
  • Probe
  • register_probe()
  • detect()
• External downloadable tests
  • Executing Tests
  • Constructing external downloadable tests
• Keyval files in Autotest
  • Job level keyval
  • Test level keyval
  • Results level keyval
• Diagnosing failures in your results
  • Basics
  • Looking at raw results
  • The debug directory
  • The sysinfo directory
  • Manually running a job on a machine that is causing problems