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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

Continuous Development and Continuous Integration

The first two phases of the DevOps application are the core features that deal with the persona of UiPath developers. The UiPath administrator must understand these phases, as they will be involved in supporting issues that deal with committing the UiPath script or cloning an existing GitHub repository and such.

These concepts will be discussed in detail in the next sections; we will start with some details of how Continuous Development concepts are used in the UiPath automation development process.

Continuous Development of UiPath automation

Continuous Development is an agile software development methodology that will enable an automation program to be split into manageable components. Automation increments are delivered in the form of scripts at different phases of the development process, like so:

Figure 6.3 – An epic/feature distribution for development

Agile software development is the most...