{"id":4473,"date":"2012-09-11T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/09\/11\/what-is-this-lab-management-network-traffic-querylabsystemdeploymenttasks-querytestmachines-querylabenvironments-etc\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:58:17","slug":"what-is-this-lab-management-network-traffic-querylabsystemdeploymenttasks-querytestmachines-querylabenvironments-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/what-is-this-lab-management-network-traffic-querylabsystemdeploymenttasks-querytestmachines-querylabenvironments-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this Lab Management network traffic: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks, QueryTestMachines, QueryLabEnvironments etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Just received a question on an internal distribution list: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><i>What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: <\/i><\/h4>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp; IP_Address Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp; QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryLabEnvironments&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IP_Address&nbsp; Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp; QueryLabEnvironments&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryTestMachines&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IP_Address Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp; QueryTestMachines&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Test Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FindController&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IP_Address&nbsp; Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FindController<\/font>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<h4>If you have a Test Controller configured for your TFS instance you may see network traffic like: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks, QueryTestMachines, QueryLabEnvironments etc.&nbsp; <\/h4>\n<p><font size=\"3\">These packets are to be expected and are the synchronization calls from the test controller managing different tasks such as pulling down the deployment tasks (for managing Build-Deploy-test workflows), adding new standard environments, deleting standard environments, adding machines,&nbsp; deleting machines and for new automation test runs that have been queued.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Note: You should be seeing these only if you have test controller configured for your TFS instance.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp; IP_Address Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp; QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryLabEnvironments&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IP_Address&nbsp; Mac_Address&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9)&nbsp; QueryLabEnvironments&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lab Management&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QueryTestMachines&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date&nbsp; Machine_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? 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