Orchestrator

Orchestrator

                             UiPath Orchestrator is a server-based application that lets you orchestrate your Robots, hence the name Orchestrator. It has a browser-based interface that enables the orchestration and management of Robots with a click.  You can perform the following operations by using orchestrator,

•          Provisioning a robot

•          Creating Environments

•          Scheduling Robot

•          Creating Robot Assets

•          Create Queues

•          Managing packages.

              Orchestrator lets you manage the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment, acting in the same way as an integration point with third-party applications.

Provisioning Robot

       Provisioning means linking the robot from virtual machine with the orchestrator server.Please follow the below steps to provision the robot.

•       Open the orchestrator URL and login. UiPath has provided couple of websites to use as test orchestrator, you can use either https://demo.uipath.com/ or  https://platform.uipath.com/ 
•       Go to Machines Tab and create a new machine and capture the ROBOT Key.
•       Open the uipath robot tray from the local machine and click on settings.
•       Enter the above captured ROBOT key in the Robot Key field and click Ok.
•       This concludes provisioning of robot.
•        Go to ROBOTS tab and create a new robot by selecting previously created Machine.

Create Environment

Go to Environment and create a new environment and select the above created robot.

Publish bot as package

Publish the package from UiPath Studio and that will be published into Process->Packages in the orchestrator.

•       Open uipath studio and select the bot you want to publish.
•       Goto setup tab and click on publish.

       Create New Process

Create a new process under Process tab and select the environment which we created earlier.

Jobs

If you want to run the bot manually then create a job. This can be done by the below steps. 

Go to Jobs tab to create a new job and select the process name which we created in the above step and start the job.

Setup the Schedules for the Bot

        Set the required schedules in the schedules tab in orchestrator. You can select schedules for the required bots. Select the required process and set the trigger based on your requirement. This can be either Minutes,Hourly,Daily,Weekly,Monthly.  Select Execution target, this can be "All robots"  or  "Selected robots" or let UiPath "Allocate Dynamically".  And in the actions "Stop job after" to stop the job after specified time, "Disable Schedule at" to disable the schedules after the specified time.

Assets

       Assets usually represent shared variables or credentials that can be used in different automation projects. They give you the opportunity to store specific information so that the Robots can easily have access to it. The following types are allowed in assets

•         Text

•         Boolean

•         Credentials

•         Integer

       If you want retrieve Text,Boolean,Integer use "Get Asset" activity in uipath studio., if you want to retrieve credentials use "Get Credential" activity which returns secure string.