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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

Support life cycle

There are two core terminologies where many support students or beginners get confused:

  • Bot: This refers to a virtual worker who will operate in a virtual environment and occupy resources, including a license, in the UiPath platform. The bot can execute multiple processes (in the foreground or the background).

A typical bot life cycle, such as a human employee, begins with an onboarding process where the bot is configured into a machine or machine template, and access to resources such as applications, shared drives, mailboxes, credentials, and more is assigned. Then, once the bots are ready, they are operationalized to execute one or more processes at various points in time; the bot will be continuously monitored for health and utilization. Generally, they get repurposed to execute different processes. If the demand for the bot decreases due to changing business conditions and other internal or external factors, the bot license is unallocated, and...