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Replay Ready Checklist

Jonathan Lindo December 01, 2011

This checklist is designed to help you make sure you are ready to use ReplayDIRECTOR. 

Architecture

Be sure to review the architecture document located at http://support.replaysolutions.com/entries/20717436-replay-architecture-and-firewall-ports to make sure you have a good understanding of the Replay components.

Checklist

  1. ReplayDIRECTOR Server (RDS) will be installed on a Windows server. This can be Windows 7, 2003 or 2008.
  2. On the RDS, make sure TCP ports 80 and 10230 (by default) are open and the RDS can accept connections on these ports through any firewalls.
  3. Confirm that you are using Sun JVM 1.5.x or 1.6.x to run your application. Check this by running 'java -version' from a command prompt.
  4. ReplayDIRECTOR Agents are installed on your application servers that you wish to record, such as Tomcat, JBoss or WebLogic. Confirm that these servers can connect to the RDS on TCP port 10230.
  5. ReplayDIRECTOR Eclipse Plugin is installed on the Developer, QA and/or Operations systems for replaying and visualizing recordings. Confirm that these systems can connect to the RDS on TCP ports 80 and 10230.
  6. (Optional) ReplayDIRECTOR Browser plugins are installed on any web browsers that will be browsing to the applications being recorded. Confirm that these machines can connect to the RDS on TCP port 80.
  7. (Optional) ReplayDIRECTOR Connector is installed on your defect tracking and/or test automation systems. Confirm that these machines can connect to the RDS on TCP port 80.
Please note that the above mentioned TCP ports can be configured to be on different ports should you wish. To learn how to configure ports, please see http://support.replaysolutions.com/entries/20731382-configuring-cus....

Remote Linux Replay from Windows

If you are planning to make recordings on Linux and replay them from a Windows system, you must also confirm that the Linux system you will use for Replay has additional TCP ports open. Details are available in the following article: http://support.replaysolutions.com/entries/20161451-remote-linux-replay .