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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By : Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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

Robot machine maintenance

Robot machines are also enterprise infrastructure resources that are usually managed by the Enterprise infrastructure team. As digital workers or bots access these machines to perform critical business operations, the UiPath Support team must oversee the robot machine maintenance activities by working closely with the enterprise infrastructure team.

As discussed in Chapter 1, Understanding UiPath Platform Constructs and Setup, there are different ways to configure robot machines. Virtual desktops and servers (for high density) are two popular robot hosting options in this section’s scope.

In ABC Insurance Corporation, each UiPath robot is hosted on individual AWS workspaces (cloud-based virtual desktops). Hence, a good understanding of robot machine maintenance is necessary for the UiPath Support team.

Best Practice

Server options such as AWS EC2 can also be used to host multiple robot accounts on a single machine. The UiPath robots hosted...