Does client has to install the UiPath in order to run robots on their systems?

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Hello,

Does the client has to install the UiPath in order to run robots on their systems? How it is supposed to work in real-time?

Thanks in advance!

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Preet

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Hello @Preet,
Let me try to answer your questions one by one:

Q: “Does the client has to install the UiPath in order to run robots on their systems?”
A: Yes, the client does need to install UiPath in their systems / computers in order to avail the services it offers, but it depends only on which service you want.

Let me give you a quick rundown of each UiPath service/component:

  • Studio: The component where the user can design/create and edit automation workflows/processes.
  • Robot: Responsible for executing automation processes
  • Orchestrator: Allows for remote management of robot, jobs, licenses, and almost everything related to your automations.

Now, if your client is only interested in executing/running processes in their machines, then they only need to install the robot software. But you will still need at least one instance of Studio, since you can only build/create workflows using Studio.
With the Orchestrator, if you are still trying UiPath out, you can simply use the online community edition cloud Orchestrator, which doesn’t require any installation.

Q: “How it is supposed to work in real-time?”
A: Let’s do this per component.

  • Studio: You wil use Studio to design and create your automation processes and then once satisfactory you can publish it to your Orchestrator.

    • You can also publish locally and send the packages manually to all the machines that has a robot, but it would be easier to just publish it directly to the Orchestrator.

  • Orchestrator: Things that you would need to do in the Orchestrator before being able to execute your processes if you’re working with the Orchestrator:

    • Provision Machine & Robot instances in the Orchestrator in order for the Orchestrator to be connected to the client machine.
    • Allocate necessary licenses to the robots
    • Create an environment for your robots.
    • Prepare the automation processes that was published from Studio and put them in the same environment as the robot.
    • Run the process manually via Orchestrator using the “jobs” functionality or create automatic schedules for the robot using the “triggers” functionality.

  • Robot: Connect the robot to the Orchestrator via robot settings, once connected & licensed you can then manually download the published workflows from Orchestrator using the robot tray/agent desktop, and run them on the machine where the robot software is installed.

    • Again, you can also do this locally (without Orchestrator connection) but it would be easier if you were connected to the Orchestrator.

    Or you can just run the job/process via Orchestrator, and the robot will download the packages and execute the process automatically.

Hope I was able to answer some of your questions, if you need further clarifications feel free to ask.

Happy automating! :vulcan_salute:

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Thanks for detailed explanation .

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