Configure a Synthetic Scenario

Firefox in a headless environment

Set up Synthetic Monitoring with Firefox in a headless environment

Install Gecko driver

Get the latest version from here - https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

BASH

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.28.0/geckodriver-v0.28.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar -xf geckodriver-v0.28.0-linux64.tar.gz
sudo mv geckodriver /usr/bin/geckodriver
cd /usr/bin/
chmod +x geckodriver
geckodriver -v

Install Firefox

Get the latest stable version from here - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

Ubuntu

CODE

sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox

CentOS/RHEL

CODE

su
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
yum install firefox
firefox -v

Settings for Synthetic Web Component

When running Synthetic Web Component in Germain, ensure the following options are applied

Google Chrome in a headless environment

Set up Synthetic Monitoring with Google Chrome in a headless environment

Download/Install Chrome driver

Get latest version - https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

CODE

sudo wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/80.0.3987.106/chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
chromedriver – version

Install Google Chrome

CODE

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libappindicator1 fonts-liberation libasound2 libgconf-2 4 libnspr4 libxss1 libnss3 xdg-utils
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
sudo mv /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/bin/google-chrome

Microsoft Edge in a headless environment

Set up Synthetic Monitoring with Edge in a headless environment

Download/Install Edge driver

Get latest version - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver?form=MA13LH#downloads

CODE

sudo wget https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/126.0.2592.87/edgedriver_linux64.zip
sudo unzip edgedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv msedgedriver /usr/bin/msedgedriver
msedgedriver – version

Install Edge

CODE

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'
sudo rm microsoft.gpg
sudo apt update && sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

Configure

Prerequisites

Available in Germain 8.6.13+
Engine will need to be run in a desktop session
User that runs Engine must be an Administrator
Host System should allow PowerShell scripts to run
Setup a Dedicated Engine Manager / Engine Instance for running the IE Monitoring
- Same as setting up any engine (Engine Deployment), Only difference is it will only run the Dedicated IE monitoring on it.
- If you have more than one Engine Manage on the System, you will need to specify a separate port in the Germain GUI (See section “Setting a different port for Engine Manager“)
- Remember to set a unique name in germain-bootstrap.properties (germain.bootstrap.node="Node Name")

Setting a different port for Engine Manager

Select your Engine Manager / Node in Germain State

Alter the “State Store URL” and the “State Store Server Port” to use an unused port on the Host System

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