Building and testing Agent

This document describes how to build and test comnsense agent on Windows. It is recommended that you use a 32-bit version of Python for the sake of compatibility.

Running comnsense agent

1. Install the requirements listed below
2. Run comnsense/agent/bin/comnsense-agent with a 32-bit version of Python

Building a distribution

Install requirements

• PyQt4
• It is needed to use py2exe == 0.6.9 due to this errors
• zmq should be installed via whl file
• Tornado pip install tornado
• Enum pip install enum34
• msgpack pip install msgpack-python

Build a distribution folder

• go to agent subdirectory
• run python setup.py py2exe

This will create a folder dist where exe files reside.

Run comnsense

• move the dist folder to whatever machine you want to install the agent at.
• go to dist
• run comnsense-tray.exe
• you should see new item in tray with Exit action in the context menu

Run tests

• run pip install mock
• somehow install allure
• go to agent subdirectory
• run python runtests.py

Application useful for testing

• Process Explorer - show process tree, threads, strings, stacks, network connections.
• Handle - show open descriptors.