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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 monitoring setup

The monitoring setup for a UiPath program has multiple levels involved. In the ABC Insurance Corporation, we have three level setups for monitoring:

Figure 3.2 – ABC’s UiPath monitoring framework

The governance of all the monitoring solutions deployed, including UiPath Insights and third-party applications such as Kibana, are also covered in this section. In many companies, enterprise monitoring solutions such as Splunk, Datadog, and Prometheus, are also used for monitoring and alerting, and these are also scoped into this bucket.

Business level

The business stakeholders of the UiPath RPA program will be interested in monitoring the bot process performance regularly. Provisions and support setup needs to be in place to facilitate their requests.

The ABC Insurance Corporation RPA CoE uses an out-of-the-box monitoring solution from UiPath called UiPath Insights. UiPath monitoring can also be configured on custom applications...