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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

A UiPath Orchestrator overview

UiPath Orchestrator is the core product of the UiPath Platform, and it is used to manage robots, automation, and associated components. It acts as a control room for publishing automation packages, provisioning machines and robots, and running and monitoring automation jobs. It is mainly divided into two main feature sets of entities:

  • Tenant level
  • Folder level

As defined in Chapter 1, the Tenant level is the highest level of grouping of Orchestrator resources. Robots, machines, and packages are some of the entities used across a tenant. In ABC Insurance Corporation’s UiPath Orchestrator, there are multiple tenants, such as finance, IT, and HR.

Figure 4.1 – Orchestrator tenant entities

The next level of grouping is at the folder level, where processes, assets, and queues are created to be used in the folder context. High-level monitoring capabilities are also provided in Orchestrator using the...