Robot machine maintenance

Robot machines are also enterprise infrastructure resources that are usually managed by the Enterprise infrastructure team. As digital workers or bots access these machines to perform critical business operations, the UiPath Support team must oversee the robot machine maintenance activities by working closely with the enterprise infrastructure team.

As discussed in Chapter 1, Understanding UiPath Platform Constructs and Setup, there are different ways to configure robot machines. Virtual desktops and servers (for high density) are two popular robot hosting options in this section’s scope.

In ABC Insurance Corporation, each UiPath robot is hosted on individual AWS workspaces (cloud-based virtual desktops). Hence, a good understanding of robot machine maintenance is necessary for the UiPath Support team.

Best Practice

Server options such as AWS EC2 can also be used to host multiple robot accounts on a single machine. The UiPath robots hosted...