Using Multiple Device Sessions

While in the Capture mode, you can simultaneously connect to multiple test devices using different sessions and thus capture into the script any number of steps originating from multiple configured devices ( Figure:Multiple Session Tabs in Capture Mode Window).

Figure:Multiple Session Tabs in Capture Mode Window

To establish multiple device sessions simultaneously:

  1. Click the New Session tab, or press the Ctrl + T keyboard shortcut, to create a new session and configure it.
  2. Alternatively re-use an existing device session resource by clicking the Load from Storage... button.

  3. Click the Connect button to connect using the configured device settings.
  4. Repeat step 1 and 2 for opening multiple device sessions in parallel.
  5. Select in turn a device session by clicking its tab, click into the CLI pane and input commands. If the capturing functionality is enabled for the currently selected session (), commands are automatically captured and added as new steps to the Script Steps table.
  6. To close an open session, select its corresponding tab and click the Disconnect button.
  7. Alternatively close the session by clicking its button.

On occasions you might have started a session and entered a command that takes a long time to complete (or possibly never completes), such as for example a recursive dir C:\ command in a CmdTool session.
  In such a situation, clicking the Disconnect button once waits for the command to complete its execution. To effectively abort the session, you need to click the Disconnect button a second time.

    Displayed sessions tabs can be accessed using the following shortcuts:

    CTRL+TAB: Activates the next session tab.
    CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Activates the previous session tab. If the first tab is hit, the last session tab is selected (the tab near the New session tab).
    CTRL+F4, CTRL+W: Closes the selected tab. The Console Sessions window always has two tabs, Default Session and New Session, which cannot be closed.
    CTRL+T: Creates a new tab.

See Also

Configuring Session Parameters

Connecting to a Device and Capturing Commands