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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By : Arun Kumar Asokan
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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By: Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

UiPath administration, support, maintenance, monitoring, and deployment activities are mandatory and more challenging than developing bots. This is a major issue for many firms that are looking to scale their RPA programs. This book will help in training new UiPath users/resources involved in administration and support tasks to address existing skill gaps in RPA market. The book starts with an introduction to the UiPath Platform. You'll learn how to set up UiPath Platform administration, support, monitoring, reporting, deployment, and maintenance. After that, you’ll cover advanced topics, such as, using the orchestrator API for support operations, security, and risk management. In addition to this, best practices for each of the topics will be covered. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge you need to work on the support and monitoring of UiPath programs of any size.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: UiPath Platform and Support Setup
5
Part 2: UiPath Administration, Support, DevOps, and Monitoring in Action
10
Part 3: UiPath Maintenance and Future Trends

UiPath system health check (on-premises)

The UiPath system comprises three core elements:

  • Application
  • Data
  • Infrastructure

It is the responsibility of the UiPath Support team to get the health status and plan regular maintenance activities on each of the layers:

Figure 8.4 – UiPath system maintenance

Different health checks are designed to get a report on each of the three blocks. A respective mitigation activity follows every system health check, which are the regular maintenance activities that are performed by the UiPath Support team.

We’ll get an overview of UiPath application maintenance in the next section.

UiPath application maintenance

As many UiPath processes get onboarded continuously to a Business As Usual (BAU) or support mode, the process performance may be affected in the long run. Hence, the UiPath Support team is responsible for performing a few planned maintenance activities on long-running UiPath...