Unattended robot - can orchestrator not restart the VM whenever it runs

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when an unattended robot runs on a VM, can it run on an existing session? i.e. not having to restart the VM whenever it runs . This means it can see and automate whatever page is already open on the VM when it runs

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Technically it can, meaning if you manually access and leave the bot account session open, the bot will inherit it upon connecting. If you access it in parallel you should see the bot running.

However, this comes with a few risks:

  • Leaving the session open when it’s done, therefore some parasite processes might be running forever.
  • Human interaction can mess up the bot’s actions.
  • Your screen resolution will take over bot settings - possibility to mess up a few UI interactions
  • UI actions might not be 100% reliable when a user is connected in parallel

So that being said, yes it can. It’s not ideal tho, but be careful not to mess with the running automation :slight_smile:

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