Monday, September 26, 2011

Generating sessions

I needed a way to generate 1000+ sessions in the Bb sessions table in development. However, development doesn't garner that many active users. I hit upon using webdav to generate sessions via curl. Here's a simple bash script to do so. Assumption is there's at least one userid you have the password for.

for i in {1..1000};
do echo $i; 
curl 'https://bbserver/bbcswebdav/users/userid' -u userid:pw ; 
done

3 comments:

  1. Hello,

    I'm trying to figure out how to use feed files with CURL to post to the Endpoint URLs. I'm not clear how to accomplish this. Could you help me out??? Thanks!!

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  2. Hi Josh,

    I'll have to start a new blog post on the SP8 SIS data integrations, and what we've learned from the few webinars and testing we've done. 8-)

    - Ian

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  3. You can find more information about the SIS integrations in the online admin help now.

    http://help.blackboard.com/Blackboard_Learn/EN/9.1/Admin/index.htm > Help for Administrators > System Integration > Student Information System (SIS)

    Specifically, Testing XML/HTTP SIS Integrations covers the CURL bit.

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