Can launch unattended automation to run on Mac?

[Terry_Marr]

I’ve asked this before, and got conflicting answers. I’m trying to get absolutely clear, can an unattended process be launched from Orchestrator and run on my mac laptop? I have Assistant set up on my mac, and can run a process from there. But if I want to run a background only, cross-platform automation from Orchestrator and set it to run on my mac, will that work? When I try it right now, it goes to “pending” in jobs, and gets stuck there. DO I NEED MORE THAN ONE LICENSE TO RUN THIS? Right now I just have the 1 production free license.

Is this possible another way?

[chandreshsinh.jadeja]

Hi if you are able to run it from assistant than you can do it from orchestrator as you mentioned goes to pending this can be due to connection between system and orchestrator
I assume that license is of unattended production free license

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Terry_Marr

On mac only attended robot is possible but mot unattended runs…

So only from assistant you can run the cross platform robots as well in attended mode

Cheers

[Terry_Marr]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Your answer is different from that of @Anil_G, who says running a cross-platform process is only possible when run through Assistant. I’d like a definitive answer on whether it can be also run through Orchestrator. As I said, it goes to “pending” in Orchestrator. Could it be a licensing issue? I currently have the one free license and it works on my windows laptop. But I’m trying to run a cross-platform process and send it to my mac, just to see what is possible. (I’m learning). If I had another license, would it work from Orchestrator? So…are licenses married to the user/bot account, to the individual machine, or something else? Or, is it a connection issue? It’s easy to set up windows but mac is different – did I do it right?

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Terry_Marr

On mac it runs only through assistant and not from orch

Also license depends on what type of license you take.few licenses are user based and few are not like that cna be juggled between users

Cheers

[chandreshsinh.jadeja]

Hi I am not aware of if we can execute unattended bot in Mac OS but licensing depends on if you have unattended or attended bot if you have attended that you can not execute from orchestrator if you have unattended than it can get triggered from orchestrator (in windows not sure about macos)

[Terry_Marr]

Ok, I got my Mac to run an unattended automation, launched from Orchestrator. It’s a bit tough to understand all this for beginners with the Free Community version, but here’s how I got it to work:

Each free version has 1 production runtime + 1 testing runtime = 2 runtimes total.

So what I did is assign my Mac the testing runtime, and my Windows machine the production runtime.
My Windows machine => 1 Production License:

My Mac => 1 Testing License:

Now I can run BACKGROUND, CROSS-PLATFORM processes on my Mac, launched from Orchestrator. I just need to remember to use the Testing Runtime when starting a background process for my Mac. Now, I can run them concurrently: