Manual: Single-node evaluation profile requirements and installation

This page walks you through the requirements and installation instructions for the single-node evaluation profile.

Deployment Profile Overview

Important:

Linux and Kubernetes knowledge is required regardless of the deployment profile you choose. If you encounter issues installing and configuring Automation Suite, contact UiPath Professional Services.

Before choosing your deployment profile, see Supported use cases for single-node and multi-node installations.

The installation process generates self-signed certificates on your behalf. These certificates will expire in 90 days, and you must replace them with certificates signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) as soon as installation completes. If you do not update the certificates, the installation will stop working after 90 days. For instructions, see Managing certificates.

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) is not compatible with Automation Suite. If FIPs is enabled at any point on the servers running Automation Suite, the cluster will fail. If FIPs is enabled on any cluster server, the installer will encounter issues blocking the installation.

Deployment profile	Prerequisites	Requirements	Configuration	Installation
Single-node evaluation profile	One Linux machine with supported RHEL version and ipcalc tool installed. For details about RHEL compatibility with Automation Suite versions, see RHEL compatibily matrix. Additional Linux machine is required when using Task Mining Additional Linux machine with GPU support is recommended when using Document Understanding Note: We support new minor versions of RHEL within 90 days of their release. We support SELinux with default policies.	Single-node evaluation machine requirements	Configuring the machines	Online single-node evaluation installation Offline single-node evaluation installation
	Microsoft SQL Server (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 - Standard and Enterprise editions) Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements.	Microsoft SQL Server requirements	Configuring Microsoft SQL Server
	DNS	N/A	Configuring the DNS
	TLS 1.2+	Updating the TLS protocol	N/A
	IPv4 Important: IPv6 is not supported.	N/A	N/A
	Trusted TLS, token-signing and SQL connection encryption certificates	N/A	Configuring the certificates
	Proxy server (optional)	N/A	Configuring proxy on the machine Configuring proxy during installation
	Kerberos authentication (optional)	N/A	Setting up Kerberos authentication

Important:

RHEL kernel version kernel-4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8 is affected by an issue that interrupts the installation or management of the Automation Suite cluster. Make sure that none of the Automation Suite nodes uses this kernel version either pre- or post-installation. You can update the kernel version by running the following command:

dnf install -y kernel kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs

Note:

• You need root permission to install and deploy Automation Suite. For more on the specific components that require root access, see Root privileges requirement.

• Cilium requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN permissions to function correctly. Make sure these permissions are granted.

• Having scan agents running on your system may cause installation or runtime failures, due to the changes they make to the IPTables. To avoid this behavior, configure your scan agent so that it does not interfere with the Automation Suite installation.
• UiPath does not prescribe specific firewall or developer tool configurations as long as the Automation Suite requirements are met. Based on our observations, a limited number of external tools can interfere with the smooth operation of Automation Suite. If such issues arise, contact the relevant vendor for help. For additional guidance, see the Automation Suite responsibility matrix.

Evaluation or Demo Purposes — Single-node Evaluation Profile Hardware Requirements

Important: Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) is not compatible with Automation Suite. If FIPs is enabled at any point on the servers running Automation Suite, the cluster will fail. If FIPs is enabled on any cluster server, the installer will encounter issues blocking the installation.

If you opt for the single-node evaluation profile, you must meet the following hard requirements:

Single-node evaluation profile (supported only for evaluation and demo purposes)
Selection	Complete	Basic
Processor	32 (v-)CPU/cores	16 (v-)CPU/cores
RAM	64 GiB	32 GiB
Cluster binaries and state disk for each node	256 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100	256 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100
Data disk for server node	512 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100	512 GiB SSD IOPS: 1100
etcd disk for server node	16 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 240	16 GiB SSD IOPS: 240
UiPath bundle disk (For offline installation only, on one of the server nodes)	512 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100	512 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100
Objectstore	512 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100	512 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100
Additional agent node for Task Mining (required)
Processor	20 (v-)CPU/cores	N/A (Task Mining is not present in this selection)
RAM	60 GiB
Cluster binaries and state disk	256 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100
Data disk	N/A
Additional agent node with GPU support for Document Understanding (strongly recommended)
Processor	8 (v-)CPU/cores	N/A (AI Center is not present in this selection)
RAM	52 GiB
Cluster binaries and state disk	256 GiB SSD Min IOPS: 1100
Data disk	N/A
GPU RAM	11 GiB

Microsoft SQL Server general requirements

The installation requires an external SQL server as a prerequisite.

Note: Make sure that the SQL server can be accessed from each cluster VM.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022 Standard and Enterprise editions are supported.

The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft SQL Server are:

• 8 (v-)CPU
• 32 GiB RAM
• 256 GiB SSD