Knowledge Base

1. Understanding the 2 Steps Interface
2. Demo - Interactive walkthrough
3. 2 Steps in 60 seconds
4. What version of 2 Steps am I running?
5. Mobile App
6. Quick Start Checklist
7. Help - WebUI
8. Help - Man pages
9. Supported Browsers
10. Demo - Creating a Citrix test.
1. 01 - Simple Website - Test setup
2. 02 - Simple Website - Schedule
3. 03 - Checkpoints
4. 04 - Results Explorer
5. 05 - Simple Windows test setup
6. 06 - Command key sequence
7. 07 - Timing Values
8. 08 - Variables
9. 09 - Troubleshooting Images
10. 10 - 2FA
11. 11 - Editing Tests
12. 02 - Simple Website - Schedule
1. Lesson 1: Building a Synthetic Monitoring Test with 2 Steps & Splunk
2. Lesson 2: Adding Checkpoints & Timing Values
3. Lesson 3: Managing Image Sets and Troubleshooting Tests
4. Lesson 4: Scheduling Tests
5. Lesson 5: Creating Command Key Sequences
6. Lesson 6: Editing a Synthetic Monitoring Test
7. Lesson 7: Building Synthetic Monitoring for 2FA
8. Lesson 8: Using Variables
9. Lesson 9: Automating SSL Certificate Checks
10. Lesson 10: Results Dashboards
11. Lesson 11: Advanced Techniques: Scripts, Variables & OCR
1. 2 Steps Implementation Plan
2. Project Management considerations
3. Calculating Hardware Requirements
1. Additional option to install on RHEL 9
1. 2 Steps supported platforms
2. Step 1. Install: Rocky Linux 8
3. Step 2. Install: 2 Steps Stand-alone configuration
4. Setting up Citrix users for 2 Steps
5. StandAlone menu
1. 2 Steps supported platforms
2. Installation with Splunk Integration
3. HEC Token
4. Operating Instructions
5. Manual setup of SplunkCloud for 2 Steps
6. Setting up Citrix users for 2 Steps
7. Splunk search head clustering configuration
8. Splunk menu
1. Remote Server Installation (Spoke)
2. Spoke via Proxy
1. Instructions
2. Sample Automated Installation Scripts
1. 1. Creating an Android Hypervisor on Azure
2. 2. Installing Android 9 (Pie) for 2 Steps
3. prepare.yaml for Android
4. Troubleshooting installation
1. prepare.yaml entry for Main Frame emulator.
1. Licensing
1. Overview - Control Panel
2. Supported Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Automatically Naming Images
4. Automatically naming images from elements
5. Resizing the Control Panel
6. Recording a Test
7. Replaying tests
1. Overview - Test Editor
2. Initial Test Editor Window
3. Configure Test Window
4. The Test Editor Interface
5. Role-Based Access
6. Embedding a setup test
1. Overview - Edtiting Tests
2. Editing the Test Name
3. Editing Steps
4. The Snapshot View
5. Adding Steps to the Test
6. Deleting Steps in the Test
7. Live Editing
8. Offline Editing
9. Quick Actions
10. Image Maintenance
11. Shared image sets
12. Fixing Timing Issues
13. Deleting Tests
1. Overview - Checkpoints
1. Commands - Command Builder
2. Click Image
3. Click Text Input
4. Wait for Image
5. Mouse Over image
6. Resizing a Match Image
7. Extract Text with OCR
8. Click Screen Coordinates
9. Click Image and Drag
10. If Image Is Visible
11. Cropping the Match Area
12. Match Strategy
13. Reusing an Existing Image Set
14. Advanced Image Matching Options
15. Find with OCR
16. Setting the Command Delay
1. Command Builder - Advanced options
1. Commands - Secondary Command Menu
2. Wait
3. Type
4. Else
5. Send Special Keys
6. Enter 2FA SMS code
7. Enter TOTP Code
8. Run Script
9. Run JavaScript
10. Fail Test
11. Pass Test and Exit
12. Wait for Text
13. If Text is Found
14. Set Proxy
15. Set Variable
1. Secondary Command Window
1. Configuring 2 Factor Authentication Providers
2. Creating a 2FA SMS Account
3. Configuring a Phone Profile
4. Timed One-Time Password Authentication
5. SMS-based Authentication
1. Overview - Schedule Manager
2. Filtering the schedule view
3. License use projection
4. Editing and deleting tests
5. Creating a Schedule
6. Creating Additional Schedules
7. Modifying a Schedule
8. Disable / Enable a Schedule
9. Deleting a Schedule
1. Overview - Element Matching
2. Supported Commands
3. Live element highlighting
4. Double-click selection
5. Quick command creation
6. Setting the targeting mode
7. Element Targeting Options
8. Offline Editing with Element Matching
9. Live Editing with Element Matching
10. Editing Image Sets
11. Limitations of Element Targeting
1. Overview - Image Set Editor
2. Deleting Unused Image Sets
3. Renaming Image Sets
4. Removing Images from an Image Set
5. Cleaning Up Unused Image Sets
6. Modifying the Image Match Threshold
1. Overview - REST API
2. API Tokens
3. Using a Token
4. End points and Object Definitions
5. Status Codes and Errors
1. Overview - Test Variables
2. Variable Editor
3. Setting the Value of a Variable
1. Mail server setup (Postfix)
2. Setup Postfix to use external SMTP
3. Availability Alert via Email
4. Availability Alerts via Email (video)
5. Alert payload templates
1. Overview - Analysing Results
2. Overview Report
3. Select Test Results
4. Checkpoint Performance
5. Total Performance
6. Video Replay
7. Checkpoint Waterfall
8. Network Timings
9. Raw Event Data
10. Exporting and Printing Results
11. Customising Splunk Reporting Dashboards
1. Summary of network ports to open.
2. Splunk Integration
3. StandAlone server
4. Spoke / Remote server
5. Network diagrams
1. Snapshots
2. Backup sources
1. Hub and Spoke
2. In-place upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8
3. OS updates | Security scans
1. Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting
2. Troubleshooting continued
3. Creating a test template
4. Spoke server not connecting to Hub.
5. Exit codes - JSON Fields
6. Show 'start', 'running' and 'end' log messages via the Splunk UI
7. Copying a test from one server to another.
8. Rebooting 2Steps servers
9. Upgrade from v9 to v10 using RPMs
10. vimrc for yaml
11. Advanced troubleshooting
12. Forgot password
13. Mailserver setup
14. Logs - Colors
15. Logs - Cockpit
16. Proxy server - Per test
17. Proxy server - All
18. Moving test to a new 2 Steps server
19. Export Data and converting Unix time in Excel
20. Linting
21. What metrics are used to measure a Workflow with 2 Steps?
22. Authtentication issues - Creating a HAR file.
1. Supported Access Types
2. User setup - Stand-alone
3. User setup - Splunk
4. RBAC - Role-Based Access Control
5. Read-Only access.
1. Active Directory setup
2. Find the Connection String for AD authentication
3. LDAP Options during 2 Steps installation.
4. Active Directory / LDAP Troubleshooting
5. Allowed groups - v11.0.98
1. Use nested DOM queries
2. Use regexes to extract DOM contents
3. Extract multiple sections from the DOM with a backup
4. Fetch API and Async/Await/Promises
5. Generate a checkpoint failure
6. Date calculations
7. Return current time
8. Fetch API with Timeouts
9. Introspection
10. Fetch API with Headers
1. RabbitMQ clusters
2. RabbitMQ troubleshooting
3. Script to check RabbitMQ
1. HTML 5 requirement for native Citrix monitoring
2. Citrix entry in prepare.yaml (sample)
1. RDP entries in prepare.yaml
2. RDP screen resolution
3. RDP Troubleshooting
4. RDP example in prepare.yaml
1. Cheat sheet
2. Better image matching
3. Custom Metrics
4. Downloading a file inside a test.
5. HAR
6. Screen resolution for Chrome
1. Latest change log

About this course

Free
243 lessons
1 hour of video content

Social proof: testimonials

“ 2 Steps helps us in monitoring overall performance changes for our core business application on a continuous basis. We are able to experience the response time of the system as a real end-user. In case of changes we can directly relate it back to version releases, upgrades, patches, network changes, etc.”

Erwin D, CIO

Learn how to accelerate your observability with 2 Steps

Extending the power of Splunk

2 Steps is a Splunk certified application that enhances Splunk Synthetic Monitoring capabilities across all applications and infrastructures for Splunk users.
Citrix Ready Certified

2 Steps is your early warning system that enables your team to get ahead of application issues before it impacts the end-user experience.
Synthetic Monitoring for AVD Applications

2 Steps assists organisations in embracing Azure Virtual Desktop as a means of delivering a secure workspace that is both fast and flexible.

Getting Started

Videos - New

Videos - original

Installation - Planning

RHEL 9 installation note

Installation: Standalone

Installation : Splunk integration

Installation: Spoke Server Setup

Installation: Automated

Installation: Android

Main Frame emulator

Managing Licenses

The Control Panel

Test Editor

Editing Tests

Checkpoints

Using the Command Builder

Command Builder - images

Secondary Command Menu

Secondary Command Menu - images

2 Factor Authentication

Schedule Manager

Element Matching

Image Set Editor

REST API

Test Variables

Alerts

Analysing Results

Network Ports / Firewall requirements

Backups

Upgrade and OS updates

FAQ and Troubleshooting

Access Control

Active Directory authentication

Javascript Cookbook

RabbitMQ

Citrix

RDP

Tips & Tricks

Change Log

About this course

Extending the power of Splunk

Citrix Ready Certified

Synthetic Monitoring for AVD Applications