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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 platform upgrade activities (on-premises)

UiPath applications are constantly updated with new features, and it is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of the UiPath platform to ensure new UiPath capabilities and features are available to the UiPath development and user communities within the enterprise. The upgrade scenarios are only applicable for on-premises installations of UiPath products. UiPath issues Fast Track Support (FTS) – that is, x.4; for example, 2021.4 – and Long-Term Support (LTS) – that is, x.10; for example, 2021.10. As the name suggests, mainstream support for FTS is just for 6 months, but for LTS, it is for 24 months.

The FTS version is usually used for evaluation purposes and for performing a pilot study of the new features, as well as for enterprises to upgrade to the LTS version of UiPath products.

The release notes of the UiPath product need to be referred to if you wish to figure out the correct version of the UiPath...