Opkey Distributed Deployment – Network Layout

October 21, 2016

/Iffat Ara Khanam

MySQL Database (Database)

This is the central server for Opkey deployment. Needs port 3306 open for inbound connections. Needs inbound TCP access from Admin, Scheduler, Auth, Agent, and Jenkins. Recommended configuration for 10 users: Win Server 2008, 4 GB memory, 40 GB free space on install partition.

Opkey Admin Utility (ADMIN)
Used for managing Projects, Users, Roles/privileges, Execution Agents, etc. Works with a restricted user account. Needs outbound TCP access to DB and Agents. Recommended config: Win XP+, 2 GB memory, 100 MB free space on install partition. Requires Java JRE 7+ installed on the system.

Opkey Authoring Client (AUTH)
This is the primary workbench. Used to author test scripts. Contains the recorders and Result viewer. Works with a restricted user account but needs elevated admin privileges for Firefox recorder. Needs outbound TCP access to DB, Agents, Jira, AUT, and optionally Internet for Cloud infrastructures like Opkey-Cloud, BrowserStack, and pCloudy. Recommended conf: Win XP+, 4 GB memory, 100 MB free space on install partition.

Iffat Ara Khanam
Technical Content Lead

Iffat is the content lead at Opkey. She has expertise in writing technical content focused around ERP testing, Cloud apps, automation and other IT related topics. She has rich experience in writing content for marketing collateral like whitepapers, case studies, newsletters etc. which helps in funnel creation for sales.