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robotframework-sshtunnellibrary
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SSHTunnelLibrary is a Robotframework library to support SSHTunnels. It will help to connect to remote host using SSH Local Forwarding.
Install robotframework-sshtunnellibrary and its dependencies via pip
pip install -U sshtunnel
pip install -U robotframework-sshtunnellibrary
SSH Tunnel Library can be used with libraries like SSHLibrary, RequestLibrary, DatabaseLibrary, SeleniumLibrary to make connection to ssh, rest api, database connection, web application respectively.
Here is an example to make SSH connection using request library via SSH Server.
*** Settings ***
Library SSHTunnelLibrary
Library SSHLibrary
*** Variables ***
${REMOTE_HOST}= <Remote_IP/Name>
${REMOTE_PORT}= 22
${SSH_SERVER}= <SSH_Server_IP/Name>
${SSH_SERVER_PORT}= 22
${SSH_SERVER_USERNAME}= <SSH_Server_Username>
${SSH_SERVER_PASSWORD}= <SSH_Server_Password>
${LOCAL_HOST}= localhost
${LOCAL_PORT}= 0
${REMOTE_USERNAME}= <Remote_host_Username>
${REMOTE_PASSWORD}= <Remote_host_Password>
*** Test Cases ***
SSH Connection using SSH Tunnel
# Create Tunnel
Start SSH Tunnel MySshTunnel ${REMOTE_HOST} ${REMOTE_PORT} ${SSH_SERVER} ${SSH_SERVER_PORT} ${SSH_SERVER_USERNAME} ${SSH_SERVER_PASSWORD} ${LOCAL_HOST} ${LOCAL_PORT}
${LOCAL_BIND_PORT}= Get Local Port
# Connection using local bind
Open Connection ${LOCAL_HOST} port=${LOCAL_BIND_PORT}
Login ${REMOTE_USERNAME} ${REMOTE_PASSWORD}
# Closing the Tunnel
Stop SSH Tunnel MySshTunnel
FAQs
SSH Tunnel Library for Robot framework
We found that robotframework-sshtunnellibrary demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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