#Alternative to running python (as described below) on your machine, use the docker files.

1. Build docker container with docker build -t drsim_common:latest .

2. Run the container docker-compose up

3. install nodejs

4. install npm Make sure that you run these commands in the application directory "dr-sim"

5. npm install express

6. npm install argparse

7. node dmaapDR.js #keep it in the foreground

8. node dmaapDR_redir.js #keep it in the foreground