Hi Yan, Could you please attach the full log? The active controller client should have been set while pytest is collecting the test cases prior to setup step 1 even started. It should be under ~/AUTOMATION_LOGS/<floatingip>/<session_dir>/TIS_AUTOMATION.log Also assuming we figured out above issue, seems your goal is to run platform sanity that is not dependent on stx-openstack, at the moment, the setup automatically detects stx-openstack, and if it's applied, it will also expect the tenants,users,neutron routers,networks to have been created to prepare for stx-openstack test. To work around it, you can do one of the two things for now. 1. Remove stx-openstack 2. In file /home/ec/workspace/codebase/test/automated-pytest-suite/setups.py, modify following function: def setup_natbox_ssh(natbox, con_ssh): return None To fix it properly, we can add a configurable option to the test config file to skip the setup even if stx-openstack is present. BR, yang From: Chen, Yan [mailto:yan.chen@intel.com] Sent: August-01-19 4:01 AM To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] How to run stx-test: automated-pytest-suite? Hi, I'm trying to run the automated-pytest-suite cases under stx-test on a simplex deployment (on a vm created by qemu kvm). The controller-0 is already unlocked and stx-openstack applied successfully. I tried to make my own test.conf following the sample config file (stx-test_template.conf<https://opendev.org/starlingx/test/src/branch/master/automated-pytest-suite/stx-test_template.conf>) as attached. And I tried to run cases with the following command: $ pytest -m platform_sanity --testcase-config=./test.conf testcases/ But I got the following error log at the setup step 1: [2019-08-01 07:44:23,466] 1477 INFO MainThread ssh.set_natbox_client:: NatBox localhost ssh client is set [2019-08-01 07:44:23,466] 1425 INFO MainThread ssh.get_natbox_client:: Getting NatBox Client... [2019-08-01 07:44:25,322] 845 INFO MainThread container_helper.is_stx_openstack_deployed:: ['applied'] [2019-08-01 07:44:25,322] 109 INFO MainThread setups.setup_keypair:: scp key file from controller to NATBox ***Failure at test setup: /home/ec/workspace/codebase/test/automated-pytest-suite/utils/clients/ssh.py:1549: utils.exceptions.ActiveControllerUnsetException: Active controller ssh client is not set! Please use ControllerClient.set_active_controller(ssh_client) to set an active controller client. ERROR I'm wondering if this NATBox configuration is a must and if I configured it correctly? Anyone can help on the test config file? Or is there anything I need to do before the test? Thanks a lot! Yan