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If the RAC is not running, the user will see an error message such as: Start recording aborted. Reason: The Remote Agent Controller on locahost:10002 is unavailable. Confirm the Agent Controller is still running, and verify the location in Windows > Preferences > Test The user experience can be improved by providing a programmatic method to start the RAC. The user could be given an option to try to start the RAC from the dialog. This type of feature is particularly useful for less technical users (e.g., a novice tester) doing URL Recording, etc.
update based on requirements group review
Wayne, How would you propose we could do this? its a boot strapping problem in the remote case. If the desire is to do this only locally then that is possible. Please advise
Certainly from a user experience perspective it would be valuable to have this enhancement for both the local and remote case. However, I certainly understand the challenge with getting this to work in the remote case. So it seems reasonable to scope this enhancement for the local case. This would at least improve the user experience for users interested in profiling and testing (using the RAC/data collector) in the local case.
Hyades already provides executable for RAC. The UI can start RAC by executing this.
Transfered to UI component as the work belongs there.
Note that this will only be available in the local scenario since you can't start the server on a remote machine.
This is probably superceded by the IAC in TPTP 4.1. The IAC kicks in when no RAC is running, so the symptom described here (for the local case) doesn't exist any more.
With the support of IAC, this is a service that no longer require. Please see bug 74652 for more information. I am marking this enh request as resolved
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