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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By : Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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 testing, deployment, and monitoring

The last three phases of the DevOps lifecycle are the core features that deal with UiPath testing, release, and monitoring teams. The UiPath administrator must understand these phases. They will be involved in supporting issues such as when a UiPath package cannot be deployed to a test environment, the automated testing job didn’t execute as intended, and the like.

Ideally, once the script is pulled into a GitHub test branch, an automated testing job will be triggered by the Jenkins pipeline. Once the testing jobs are completed, the package is built and deployed to the Orchestrator Test environment for additional testing. A similar kind of automated test and deployment pipeline is also configured for UAT and production UiPath environments.

Let’s understand how the UiPath Jenkins plugin tests and deploys automation in the next sections to complement the DevOps phases.

Continuous testing with UiPath Test Suite

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