Connect Studio CE to Enterprise Orchestrator

[Snowman]

Hi,

Just would like to check if a Studio (Community Edition) can connect to an Orchestrator (Enterprise Edition) without consuming a license from Orchestrator, given a user account is created in the Orchestrator.

Thanks

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @Snowman

Check out this threads

Is it possible to run an enterprise robot in production environment from a community edition Orcastrator

here you go.

New requirements for Robot to Orchestrator connection!

New requirements for Robot to Orchestrator connection! Since latest update of Community Orchestrator please be careful when connecting Robot to Orchestrator. Now you need to provide full address like: https://platform.uipath.com/[AccountName]/[ServiceName] Before you needed to add just: https://platform.uipath.com/ You may find the full address in the address bar when you are on Orchestrator Tenant page. Without providing the full address in this form you will get this error: [imag…

Regards
Gokul

[Snowman]

Hi @Gokul001

Thanks for your quick reply. My case is the opposite… Studio is CE, Orchestrator is Enterprise.

Is it also possible to connect to the Orchestrator using the Studio CE license ?

Thanks.

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

No @Snowman , It is not possible. We have tried this in my environment few month back. We can’t able to achieve it.

So i don’t think it is possible to do that.

In this case we have install the enterprise edition and must have license to connect to the orchestrator.

Regards
Gokul

[jeevith (Jeevith Hegde, Ph.D.)]

Hi @Snowman,

I do not think you can do it simply because your CE Studio Named user license has to be connected to Cloud Orchestrator and send heartbeats vis the robot service.

In other words, You can connect the CE Studio to your enterprise Orchestrator but this will de allocate your cloud Studio license and you will need another named user license from your enterprise orchestrator.

So with those two reasons, what you are looking for cannot be achieved.

Some releases before, the customer portal was not available, so we used to download Studio Msi from our community edition and then allocate license to the community edition of Studio in our On-Prem orchestrator which consumed one of our Named user (Automation Developer) license.

[Snowman]

Dear @Gokul001 @jeevith,

Understood, and thank you both.

[Snowman]

Hi @jeevith ,

I read that a Studio can connect to Orchestrator using “local” license and does not consume a license from the Orchestrator. Can I say the “local” license refers only to the Enterprise license but not the Community license ?

[jeevith (Jeevith Hegde, Ph.D.)]

Hi @Snowman,

That was so before 21.10 release. From 21.10 all robot types and studio /UiRobot.exe requires an active license to orchestrator.

An airgapped install of any UiPath robot is now discontinued.

So in short, it does not matter which Orchestrator you have a local license will need to be allocated from Orchestrator and always online

@Snowman

Can I say the “local” license refers only to the Enterprise license but not the Community license ?

[Snowman]

Hi @jeevith,

Very clear, and thank you very much