Selftest target environments (testenvs) ======================================= Samba's integration testing heavily relies on the automatic creation of a Samba network. This specialized test environment is generally referred to as a Samba 'testenv'. A testenv involves starting the Samba server listening on a fake network, which is established using the socket_wrapper library from cwrap (https://cwrap.org). All testing is also done as a non-root user using the uid_wrapper library, also from cwrap. Samba's test framework uses many different types of testenv. Each testenv is customized to test a particular Samba feature or configuration. Using cwrap allows multiple different Samba servers to run at the same time, without interference. Some of the different testenvs are described in more detail below. Important notes if adding a new testenv --------------------------------------- - When adding a new testenv, in the Perl code it is recommended to always explicitly specify the --configfile option in the samba-tool command, i.e. add "env->{CONFIGURATION}" to the samba-tool command. Otherwise, the samba-tool can try to load smb.conf from the default install location (i.e. /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf). Loading a host-specific smb.conf that's outside of the testenv is obviously not ideal and something we want to avoid in a reliable test framework. 'local' disambiguation ---------------------- You may notice some variation in the target testenv that test suites are run against, for example "ad_dc" and "ad_dc:local". The main difference is the ":local" changes the smb.conf that the testenv uses. By default, the testenvs use the st/client/client.conf config-file, so that they simulate a client talking to the Samba server. However, some tests may want to simulate running a command on the Samba server itself. In these cases, the ":local" is used, which means the testenv uses the Samba server's smb.conf instead (i.e. st/ad_dc/etc/smb.conf). Note that several of the testenvs also use local in their name, e.g. 'localvampiredc'. In particular, there's the 'localdc', which is the NetBIOS name of the DC in the 'ad_dc_ntvfs' testenv. dns_hub ------- dns_hub doesn't run a Samba/smbd server like the other testenvs do. It's there to solve the problem of how to do DNS more nicely in selftest. Running autobuild can start up a lot of different testenvs, and so we end up with different DCs running in different domains. Each test suite only wants to talk to a specific domain at a time. However, by default the tests all use a common client.conf - essentially the tests are simulating a single client that's pretending to be in several different domains. The problem is when the test wants to resolve a DNS host, which DC should it ask? Each DC only knows about its own realm. dns_hub.py acts as a proxy, so it works out the correct DC to forward the query to, based on the queried host's realm. Vampire DC ---------- Vampire DC gets its name for historic reasons. It's one of the few testenvs where 2 DCs are joined together, so it's used for a lot of DRS replication testing. Basically its main job is to 'suck' the database changes out of another DC (the 'ad_dc_ntfvs' DC). There's also a 'vampire_2000_dc' that joins the 'fl2000dc' DC, although that's not used very much. Backup/restore testenvs ----------------------- Several testenvs are created to test the domain backup/restore commands. These testenvs verify that we can backup and restore a domain's database, start Samba against it, and the restored database is actually functional. There are several different flavours of backups (to cover different use-cases), so there are separate testenvs for each one. - backupfromdc: A fairly plain AD DC used as the base to generate the backup-files. These backup-files will then seed the domain database for the separate testenvs below. Backupfromdc's other unique feature is that it's the only testenv that gets provisioned with a non-default site, i.e. Default-First-Site-Name doesn't exist. - restoredc: tests the 'backup online' option. Online backups are similar to doing a DC join. Restoredc's other unique feature is that is has SMBv1 disabled. - offlinebackupdc: tests the 'backup offline' option. Offline backups capture the raw DB files on disk (safely). - renamedc: tests the 'backup rename' option, where the domain and realm are renamed. - labdc: one of the use-cases for the backup tool is to create a realistic pre-production testbed, based off a production DC. This testenv simulates that process. It uses the 'backup rename --no-secrets' option. customdc testenv ---------------- The customdc is a special testenv that's only used for manual testing, rather than the automated tests most testenvs are primarily used for. The customdc testenv also uses the backup/restore tool, however, it is quite special. Instead of the backup-file being automatically generated from a vanilla AD DC (i.e. backupfromdc), you can specify any backup-file you like. To run the testenv, you need to specify a 'BACKUP_FILE' shell variable, e.g. BACKUP_FILE=/tmp/samba-backup-50k-dc-0-mdb-50k-offline.tar.bz2 \ SELFTEST_TESTENV=customdc make testenv The main use-case for the customdc is testing changes against a large database. Adding users is very time-consuming, so it's much quicker to populate a domain with users once, take a backup, and then you can spin up a testenv based on the backup multiple times. Another use-case is that if you get a database that's corrupted or in a bad state, then you could save a backup and be able to easily get the database back into the bad state. This allows you to try different commands to diagnose/fix the issue, without fear of never seeing the problem again. You could even spin up a 'lab DC' inside a testenv, by taking a backup of a real network DC. preforkrestartdc testenv ------------------------ Used to test killing and restarting processes under the pre-fork model. Due to the destructive nature of the tests, it's not recommended to use this testenv for anything else. proclimitdc testenv ------------------- Used to test process limits on the standard model. It sets the number of allowed processes artificially low, to test that new connections are refused correctly. Due to the limited number of connections accepted, it's not recommended to use this testenv for anything else. schema_dc ---------------- This is a 2-DC testenv setup (schema_dc and schema_pair_dc). We provision the first DC, and join the second, using an older version of the schema (2008R2), then start-up Samba. Then, we run a schema upgrade (i.e. 'samba-tool domain schemaupgrade') on the PDC.