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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)
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Part 1: UiPath Platform and Support Setup
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Part 2: UiPath Administration, Support, DevOps, and Monitoring in Action
10
Part 3: UiPath Maintenance and Future Trends

UiPath Support apps

Most of the UiPath Support and administration work is manual and takes time. As an automation team, the UiPath Support team can also build a few automation applications (apps) using UiPath or any scripting tool to streamline their regular tasks and reduce the effort required. Four different types of apps are built and used in the ABC Insurance Corporation UiPath support team:

Figure 9.2 – ABC Insurance Corporations UiPath Support apps

Let’s start by understanding how the ABC Insurance Corporation UiPath Support team used custom-built apps to manage UiPath Orchestrator.

Orchestrator management apps

Managing and administering UiPath Orchestrator is an important activity for the UiPath Support team and consumes most of their daily work. Identifying a few scenarios that keep recurring and automating the tasks is recommended. This would enable the UiPath Support team members to work more efficiently and spend time troubleshooting...