On-Premises or Hybrid Installation

Whether you use Timeline via ABBYY’s SAAS instance or installed on-premises the recommended configuration of Timeline requires 3 key components.  The core Timeline server (either hosted by ABBYY or installed on-premises), the desktop Recorder which capture individual users’ desktop sessions and the central Recording Service that manages the deployed Recorders.  The Recorders and Recording Service must always be on-premises - local to the users being recorded.  There is no difference in functionality whether Timeline is accessed via ABBYY’s cloud instance or installed locally.

STANDALONE RECORDER MODE

There is an option to test Timeline’s task mining features without installing the Recording Service. In this case, you need to install the Recorder component in standalone mode. All recordings, in this case, will be stored on a local user's computer and then must be uploaded to the Timeline project manually. Before uploading, you can use the Log Viewer utility to inspect locally saved logs to see what data is recorded.  This gives the option to see what data is recorded without having to install the Recording Server or set up the Active Directory groups that it utilizes.

IMPORTANT NOTE – LIMITATIONS OF STANDALONE RECORDER MODE: While the standalone recorder mode described above eliminates the need to install and configure the Recording Service and necessary Active Directory groups it bypasses the label extraction and security features performed by the Recording Service including:

  • Screenshots will not be blurred.
  • Some labels for the events will have less accuracy.

Therefore, we do not recommend using Standalone Recorder Mode for production deployments and recommend it is limited to product evaluation or other testing activities.

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