Install MiaRec Screen Recording Controller

1. Install required packages

yum install openssl

2. Prepare directories for MiaRec screen recorder controller application:

mkdir -p /opt/miarec_screen/log
mkdir -p /opt/miarec_screen/shared
mkdir -p /opt/miarec_screen/releases

3. Download MiaRec installation files into /opt/miarec_screen/releases:

Fill the download form to request URL to MiaRec Screen Recorder Controller installation files.

cd /opt/miarec_screen/releases

wget CONTACT_US_FOR_URL

Extract:

tar -xzvf miarec_screen-*.tar.gz

4. Create symlink to the new relase:

ln -s /opt/miarec_screen/releases/miarec_screen-<REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-VERSION>  /opt/miarec_screen/current 

Using the symlink allows to easily fallback to different version if necessary.

5. Create directory for storing of screen recording files

In this example, we use directory /var/miarec/screen_recordings You can choose other directory and configure it via Web admin portal (menu Administration -> Screen Recording -> Screen Recording Settings).

6. Edit miarec.ini configuration file

vi /opt/miarec_screen/current/miarec_screen.ini

Change database connection settings (host, port, database, user, password) and redis connection settings. Redis is used as a message broker between various MiaRec components

6.1. Module which loads configuration from database

################################################################################
[Database]
################################################################################

#  Database Driver type.
#  Supported values: 
#    PostgreSQL
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Driver=PostgreSQL
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


#  Host of database server
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host=127.0.0.1:5432
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


#  Database name
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Database=miarecdb
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


#  Username and password for accessing database. Should have write permissions.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Username=miarec
Password=password
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

6.2. Redis connection settings:

################################################################################
[RedisSubscriber]
################################################################################
#  Host of redis server
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host=localhost:6379
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

7. Create startup script

There is a few variants of start-up scripts depending on OS and version:

7.1 Upstart start-up script for RedHat/Centos 6 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Create file /etc/init/miarec_screen.conf

vi /etc/init/miarec_screen.conf

Content of this file:

description "MiaRec screen recorder"
author      "MiaRec, Inc. www.miarec.com"

env EXEC=/opt/miarec_screen/current/miarec_screen
env PIDFILE=/var/run/miarec_screen.pid
env CONFFILE=/opt/miarec_screen/current/miarec_screen.ini

start on started sshd
stop on runlevel [!2345]

console output

# Increase open file descriptors limit
limit nofile 10240 10240

# Restart automatically proces in case of crash
respawn

# Stop respawn if it occured more than 10 times during 60 seconds period.
# This means serious problems
respawn limit 10 60

# Current working directory for MiaRec process
chdir /opt/miarec_screen/current

# Enable core dumps for troubleshooting
limit core unlimited unlimited

instance miarec
exec $EXEC -c $CONFFILE --pid $PIDFILE

Reload Upstart configuration

initctl reload-configuration

Validate that miarec is in a list of processes:

initctl list

If you do not see there miarec then check errors in /var/log/messages

Start MiaRec process

initctl start miarec_screen

Stop MiaRec process

initctl stop miarec_screen

Restart MiaRec process

initctl stop miarec_screen
initctl start miarec_screen

7.2 SystemD start-up script for RedHat/Centos 7

Create file /etc/systemd/system/miarec_screen.service

vi /etc/systemd/system/miarec_screen.service

Content of this file:

[Unit]
Description=MiaRec Screen Recorder
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/opt/miarec_screen/current
ExecStart=/opt/miarec_screen/current/miarec_screen --pid /var/run/miarec_screen.pid --core unlimited -c /opt/miarec_screen/current/miarec_screen.ini
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
LimitNOFILE=10240
LimitFSIZE=infinity

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Install this startup script:

systemctl enable miarec_screen

Start MiaRec process

systemctl start miarec_screen

6. Restart MiaRec service

When using Upstart:

initctl stop miarec_screen
initctl start miarec_screen

When using init.d or SystemD:

service miarec_screen restart