Front Office Robot and Back Office Robot - Updated Info 2017.1.* Onwards

[ovi (Viorela Preda)]

Hi Bejoy ,

@BejoyEdison

As per my understanding a robot becomes attended robot or unattended robot when we connect it to Orchestrator and specify the type, right ?

True. And you can see the how many Robots of each type you have left in Orchestrator Settings - License.

@BejoyEdison

If we don’t have Orchestrator or if the robot is not connected to the Orchestrator how does the robot is identified as unattended robot

If the Robot is not connected to Orchestrator, you still have to license it locally: Robot - Licensing a Robot. If you have Unattended license key, it will know to “behave” as Unattended.

@BejoyEdison

When we run a robot not connected to Orchestrator is it possible to run it under locked the screen. If so does that mean we don’t need Orchestrator and Orchestrator license to run an unattended robot ?.

It can run under locked screen(if it’s licensed locally as Unattended), but you will first have to be logged in to the Robot machine, run your process manually, then lock your screen. If you license and run through Orchestrator you won’t need to have access to the Robot machine and you can run your process(Start a Job) from anywhere.