How do I monitor teststand execution remotely

[warren_scott]

So here's my problem:

I / my group has several manufacturing lines that in total have over 100 test stations running deployment licenses of TestStand.  I want to create a utility that I can run on my local PC where I give a list of test station names (read PC network name) and it will tell me

1) Is this station running TestStand currently?

2) Is it currently running a test sequence?  If so, what is the client sequence file, and for what model/serial number, and is the current UUT passing or failing.

3) The current value of some StationGlobals.XXXX configuration variables (these may have changed since TestStand started).

Does anyone have suggestions?

I've tried running a sequence on my local PC that runs a sequence using the TestStand remote engine on a selected test station, but it looks like the remote sequence execution runs in a completely separate TestStand engine that does not share any information with the TestStand engine currently running a test (Station Globals variables in the remote engine seem to be stuck to whatever they were in StationGlobals.ini when the remote engine started) (Notifiers don't seem to be shared between the "user" and "remote" engines).

Does this make sense, or should I be able to communicate between the "remote" and "user" engines and I'm doing something wrong?

[j_dodek]

Hi warren,

Over 100 stations!! Huge number man!!  I am dealing with only 10.

Maybe you will find this thread interresting.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=330&message.id=18696&query.id=74382#M18696

If take a look into the manual about  syncronization step types (B-3) you will see that this stuff working over the netwotk, too 

If you have figured out a solution, i am interrested in to monitor my 10 stations.

greetings

juergen

[warren_scott]

Thanks....

Adding "*" to the front of my notifier made it visible to both the user and remote executions.