How to download and add Firefox or Chrome browsers for web transaction monitoring in Windows On-Premise Poller manually

How to download and add Firefox or Chrome browsers for web transaction monitoring in Windows On-Premise Poller manually

Please follow the steps given below to download and add the downloaded files in the Windows On-Premise Poller manually:

 

  1. Stop the On-Premise Poller service and ensure there are no existing processes running in it. 

  1. Check whether you have upgraded or installed the latest version of On-Premise Poller.

  1. Download all four files: firefox_win101.zip, geckodriver.exe, Chrome_win101.zip, and chromedriver.exe using the given URL based on your data center (e.g., www.site24x7.in > India datacenter).

    Please refer to the table for more details:  

     

    File name

    Data centers
    (Download the respective file for your respective DC)

    1

    firefox_win101.zip

    (264MB)

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    2

    geckodriver.exe

    (1MB)

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    3

    Chrome_win101.zip

    (247MB)

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    4

    chromedriver.exe

    (1MB)

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

  2. Validate the authenticity of the file by downloading the checksum file provided for each file.

     

    File name

    Data centers
    (download the respective file for your respective DC)

    1

    firefox_win101.zip.sha256

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    2

    geckodriver.exe.sha256

     

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    3

    chrome_win101.zip.sha256

     

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

    4

    chromedriver.exe.sha256

     

    COM

    EU

    IN

    CN

    JP

    AUZ

After downloading the files and validating them with the respective checksum files, unzip and place the validated files in the correct folders.
 
To know more about the checksum validation process, please refer to the end of the documentation under Steps to validate the checksum. 

Instructions to set up Firefox dependency

1. Unzip the downloaded firefox_win101.zip file and copy the extracted firefox folder.
2.  After copying, navigate to the [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/] folder and paste the firefox folder into [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/firefoxv101/]  
Now, the file will be updated to this format:

[<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/firefoxv101/firefox/] 
3. Copy the downloaded geckodriver.exe file.
4. After copying, navigate to the [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/firefoxv101/firefox/] folder and paste the geckodriver.exe file into the navigated (firefox) folder.

Now, the file will be updated to this format:     

  [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/firefoxv101/firefox/geckodriver.exe]  

Now, you have successfully completed the setup for Firefox.

Instructions to set up Chrome dependency

1. Unzip the downloaded Chrome_win101.zip file and copy the extracted chrome folder.

2. After copying, navigate to the [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/chromev101/] folder and paste the chrome folder into [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/chromev101/]

Now, the file will be updated to this format:

[<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/chromev101/Chrome/] 
3. Copy the downloaded chromedriver.exe file.3. Copy the downloaded chromedriver.exe file.
4.After copying, navigate to the [<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/chromev101/] folder and paste the chromedriver.exe file into the navigated (chrome) folder.


Now, the file will be updated to this format:

[<Site24x7OnPremisePoller>/RealBrowser/chromev101/chromedriver.exe] 


Now, you have successfully completed the setup for the Chrome browser.

Steps to validate the checksum

If you're using Windows 7 or above, use the Certutil or the Get- FileHash utilities to verify the authenticity of the downloaded file by executing either of the following commands:

 

CertUtil -hashfile firefox_win101.zip SHA256

Get-FileHash firefox_win101.zip -Algorithm SHA256 | Format-List


Once the SHA256 value is generated for the file firefox_win101.zip using the above command,  verify to confirm that the value obtained from the respective downloaded  sha file say, firefox_win101.zip.sha is the same.

On successful execution, you will see that the displayed checksum value will exactly match the checksum file downloaded in step 4.