1 Unattended license, 2 VM

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Dear All,
I want to run two different robots on two VMs, which are connected via two different machine ID to the orchestrator.

  • I only have 1 unattended runtime on my cloud orchestrator.
  • I don’t want to run the processes in parallel, one will run in the morning and other one in the night
  • I tried connecting two VMs using the same machine ID, but it didn’t work
  • Both processes are using same robot user and windows credentials

Right now, the machine I connected first on orchestrator is working fine. But when I start a job on the other machine, it says in pending mode because apparently, the first machine is consuming the runtime.

Please help.

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You can’t is the short answer, not unless you want to spend $$$ on multi use Licences

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so as per you, I should have two unattended run licenses (2 runtimes) and only then I can run robots on two machines?

is there any workaround for this?

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not unless you want to manually re-assign the licenses each time you run the processes, by disabling the bot that has the license in use so it goes over to the other one.

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HEy @pratik.santani

Question for you: why do you need 2 machines?
As you mentioned one is gonna run in morning and other one at night, you have totally different timings for the process to run.
They can we executed on the same one itself…

Happy Automation! :smiley:

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Hey @adiijaiin
Thanks for your reply.
The two VMs are in two different networks with two different ERP systems.

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ohkay,
Licenses would be required.

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If Orchestrator can connect to both servers on both networks, why can’t one VM connect to both ERP systems?

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You could use the Orchestrator API to change license alocation when needed.
https://cloud.uipath.com/xpinvsi/GestaoDeAcessos_BR/orchestrator_/swagger/index.html#/LicensesRuntime

A script in a task scheduler for windows could do that for you.
Or, you can finish your first execution in the morning calling this API, and doinsg the same at night.

Anyways, that would be only a temporary solution, you will need at least two licenses so you can make a kind of “License Allocator” automation.

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Well that is how the IT Infrastructure is configured since a long time. It is not typical SAP which can connect to multiple instances from the same application. It is some old legacy tool.

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