How to Run UiPath Processes Without Keeping VMs Always Active

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Hi everyone,

I’m an IT developer working in a bank, and we’re setting up some UiPath automation processes.

We want these processes to run even when the virtual machines or PCs are not open or constantly active.

Since we can’t keep the VMs running all the time, what would be the best approach or UiPath setup for this?

Would using unattended robots or the cloud orchestrator help in this case?

Any advice or experience on how to handle this kind of setup would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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To use an unattended bot, you need an installation of the Studio and select “unattended”. This will install a windows services on a machine. This machine must be running (without any logged on user). The service will communicate with Orchestrator and will get the credentials to logon with.

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Thanks for the explanation about unattended bots!

I just want to confirm — what type of licenses do we need to buy to use unattended robots (for production in a bank), and can we use the Community Edition for that.

Thanks in advance

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You need to get at least
UiPath - Flex - Unattended Robot

1.380 / month

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community is not allowed for companies

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@Mohamedamine_SEHIRI,

VM would be required to be active before unattended bot starts the execution because bot will be able to run on active and connected virtual machine only.

One possible approach would be developing and scheduling a script to start your VM< before unattended bot starts the execution.

So you got only two options:

  1. Keep VM active always - Best practice
  2. Start the VM on schedule before bot execution.
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@Mohamedamine_SEHIRI

Welcome to the community

  1. Community license should not be used for commercial purposes
  2. Uattended license is what you need
  3. If you want to host your own VM then they should be running always. The user session would be active only when robot runs but VM needs to be available.
  4. You have another option to use UiPath VMS for which you dont need any VM setup UiPath takes care of it and it would consume 6000 to 7000 robot units. For this no unattended license is needed. you can purchase robot units in bundles of 60k

Hope this helps

cheers