diff --git a/AusRegCliever/server/mdAusReg.cpp b/AusRegCliever/server/mdAusReg.cpp
index cc8b79c..bccfcda 100644
--- a/AusRegCliever/server/mdAusReg.cpp
+++ b/AusRegCliever/server/mdAusReg.cpp
@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
 #define MD_AUSREG
 #include "cliever-md.h"
+#include "session/SessionFactory.hpp"
+#include "session/SessionManagerProperties.hpp"
+#include "common/SystemProperties.hpp"
+#include "session/Session.hpp"
+#include "session/StatsManager.hpp"
 
 using namespace std;
 
 static TestEnvironment props;
 
+static std::string TEST_SE =
+	"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?><epp xmlns=\"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0 epp-1.0.xsd\"><hello/></epp>";
+
 // static void testExecuteParallelTransactions() throw (EPPException);
 
 bool ausRegEPPTK::didInit(const std::string propertiesFilePath) {
@@ -32,16 +40,22 @@ void ausRegEPPTK::doOTEA()
     try {
         Timer::setTime("20070101.010101");
         auto_ptr<SessionManager> manager(SessionManagerFactory::newInstance(&props));
+		auto_ptr<Session> sess(SessionFactory::newInstance(&props));
         op = "startup";
         manager->startup();
         op = "run (keep-alive)";
-
         manager->run();
-        for (hours=0;hours < 22;hours++) {
+
+		sess->open();
+        for (hours=0;hours < 24;hours++) {
           // Spawn the keep alive thread.
           theseLogs->logN(1,"Start of OTE Test Hour %d.",hours);
           sleep(3630);
+  		  sess->writeXML(TEST_SE);
+  		  sess->read();
+
         }
+        sess->close();
         manager->shutdown();
 
     }