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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

DevOps and its lifecycle

Software Development (Dev) + operations (Ops)= DevOps

DevOps is a Continuous Delivery methodology that enables siloed teams such as software development, testing, release, operations, and the like to coordinate and collaborate to produce quality software products in short-period iterations. The concept has gained traction in every field of software, including the UiPath RPA programs. Let’s understand the significance of this DevOps lifecycle before getting into the details.

Figure 6.2 – The DevOps lifecycle

Making the process of how software is developed, integrated, tested, deployed, and monitored visible and transparent will be beneficial for the software development team and its other partner teams. This action will ensure that resources and budgets are aligned to support the product.

Having centralized governance for software product development and release process, in addition to shorter release cycles, is another...