Hi Everyone. One of my client wants to automate the below task. I have received Citrix virtual machine from my client.
Process:
Reports/Alerts comes to mailbox
2.Bot needs to monitor mailbox and if it contains attachment - download & save it or if the email contains link to download the reports, navigate to the site and download it.
Upload the downloaded report to ShareFolder and notify
Alerts are not frequent. It may come weekly once or bi-weekly.
Q1:I want to understand whether we need to go for Attended or Unattended licensing?
Q2: Whether Attended licensing comes with Orchestrator?
Q3: Will it run without logging to the Citrix virtual machine manually?
A1: The decision to choose attended or unattended licensing depends on whether a human needs to be present while the robot is running or not. In this case, since the task involves monitoring mailbox and downloading attachments, it can be automated using an unattended robot.
A2: Attended licensing does not come with Orchestrator. Orch is used to manage and monitor unattended robots.
A3: Yes, the Unattended robot can run without logging into the Citrix virtual machine manually. You will need to install UiPath robot on the Citrix virtual machine and configure it to run as a Windows service. Then you can schedule the robot to run at specific times or trigger it using Orchestrator.
I have access to a ton of Orchestrators, and on all of them they now have this, which I think is to foster citizen development. They all came for free as part of some other licencing package they amended, so you can get them as part of many if not all basic enterprise packages.
I personally don’t care for Citizen development, but 100 attended licences is pretty sweet.
@Jon_Smith - Do I need to buy Orchestrator separately? As per my understanding, for my use case, I can go for 1 studio license & 1 unattended license right? Unattended license comes with Orchestrator?
Yes, the cloud orchestrator has no charge from what I recall. You only pay for the robot licences.
If you get one studio and one unattended then I expect you will also get the 100 studiox licences (which also means attended), 2 Data Service Units (Each Data Service Unit grants you 1 GB of data storage, 5 GB of attachment storage and 10,000 API calls/day.), 1 Document Understanding unit and 240 Computer Vision units.
Further components of the automation suite such as Test Manager, Automation Hub, Process Mining, Insights and the AI Center all have additional licencing fees.
I’d urge you to double check this info with the sales team however as this is what I see on all my clients who have an enterprise licence with at least 1 unattended and studio robot.
