Additional Information

Runtime

IBM Robotic Process Automation is composed of many apps, which are part of its license. These apps are: Launcher, Vault, Runtime, Studio, IVR and Bot. One license might support more than one instances (execution of one of these applications) which is used every time one of the apps is opened, the client can check the instance usage status in the license page, as seen in the image below:

To access these applications it is not necessary to have administrator permissions, but the client should be registered to the Tenant . The Runtime is an app used by other apps, responsible for executing bots, which can be executed by either scheduler, launcher, webservice or Orchestrator.

Important! In order to execute a bot, it is essential that there is an available Runtime instance. To better control it, some features use an execution queue in the computer. Thus, when the computer receives a task to execute a bot, if there is no Runtime instance available, it is queued up and executed as soon as the Runtime is no longer in use.

The admin determines the number of Runtime instances that the computer can use during the computer registration process , by defining a percentage of instances that the computer can use to execute queues in the "Queue execution percentage time" field, which limits the usage for that specified time of execution. The "Standing by runtimes" feature optimizes resources for executing bots, eliminating idle times between executions by previously allocating resources for executing bots in the queue.

Chrome Drivers in On-Premises Environments

Important! This additional configuration is only for the IBM Robotic Process Automation Studio in an On-Premises environment.

To automate Web tasks in the On-Premises IBM Robotic Process Automation Studio, it is necessary to add the current Chrome driver version in the IBM Robotic Process Automation Studio folder. To find out the current Chrome version, go to the Chrome Help > About Google Chrome page, as shown below:

We need the major release version numbers, which in this case is 85. To download the driver go to the following website https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads , and click on the option that corresponds to the major release number, as shown below:

As we are still using Chrome 85, we click on the second option. After that, the following page comes up:

We download the Chrome driver according to our operating system. In this case, we select the chromedriver_win32. After downloading the .zip file, we extract its contents to the following folder:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\IBM Robotic Process Automation\packages\20.10.0 Example: C:\Users\ibmuser\AppData\Local\IBM Robotic Process Automation\packages\20.10.0

The IBM Robotic Process Automation Studio will look for the contents in this folder when automating web processes using the Chrome browser. With all of that done, the IBM Robotic Process Automation Studio can now successfully use the Chrome browser in web automations.