Start a selenium hub on a remote machine programmatically

Question

How can we start a selenium grid hub on a remote machine programmatically?

As of now, i know the following ways of doing it but i have some questions on those.

Approach 1: Execute a batch file on remote machine with required command (java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.14.0.jar -role hub) to start the hub. (using PSExec to execute command on remote machine)

No questions and issues with above approach. But looking for an API way of doing this .

Approach 2: This approach (I didn't try this way since these are JAVA APIs and i have very little knowledge in JAVA).

Q1: Can we use the above approach to start the hub on a remote machine?

Q2: Does selenium server jar file is required in this approach?

Can we use these APIs in our program (some how making a POST or GET http request with required configuration in JSON ) to configure Hub on a remote machine and start it? (I know console way of using these APIs with selenium server jar file)

Answer 1

The only way to start selenium grid is by running command on remote machine using the below command

java -jar Selenium-server.jar -role hub

you can make a batch file for this command to ease of use specifiy the name of jar file with your file

Answer 2

试试这个RemoteWebDriver rWD =新的RemoteWebDriver（新的URL（“ http：//” + {{Hub_Name}} +“：4444 / wd / hub”），desiredCapabilities）;