Managing products

Enable and disable products post-installation in Automation Suite on EKS/AKS using input.json and uipathctl.

You can enable and disable products in Automation Suite at any point post-installation.

To do that, you must access and update the input.json file and apply the new configuration via uipathctl.

Step 1: Changing the product selection in the configuration file

1. Change the product selection in the configuration file.

   To do that, edit input.json with the editor of your choice.

2. In the services list, set the enable flags to true or false for the specific services you want to enable or disable.

   Note:

   You can manage Action Center and Apps simply by updating the enable flag. Other products might require an additional step to configure the installation. Refer to the following instructions for details.

   The following examples provide configuration details for individual products.

Enabling or disabling Action Center

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Action Center in the input.json file:

"actioncenter": {
  "enabled": "true" //Set to "false" to disable the Action Center
}

Enabling or disabling Apps

Apps requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template_odbc in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_Apps.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Apps field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template_odbc.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Apps in the input.json file:

"apps": {
  "enabled": "true" //Set to "false" to disable the Apps
  "sql_connection_str": "" ////Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Enabling or disabling AI Center

AI Center requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template_jdbc in input.json, then the default AI Center database name is AutomationSuite_AICenter.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the AI Center field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template_jdbc.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling AI Center in input.json:

"aicenter": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the AICenter
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only required to override the default database name
}

AI Center installed in Automation Suite on AKS/EKS cannot connect to an external Orchestrator.

Enabling or disabling Automation Hub

To enable Automation Hub, in the automation_hub section of the input.json file, set the enabled flag to true:

"automation_hub": {
  "enabled": "true" //Set to "false" to disable Automation Hub
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

To disable Automation Hub, set the enabled flag to false in the automation_hub section of the input.json file.

Enabling or disabling Automation Ops

Automation Ops requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template in input.json, then the default database name for Automation Ops is AutomationSuite_Platform.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Automation Ops field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template.

Note:

Automation Ops shares a database with the core platform, including Orchestrator. If you change the database here, you update the database for the core platform as well.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Automation Ops in input.json:

"automation_ops": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the Automation Ops
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Enabling or disabling Automation Suite Robots

Note:

Before enabling Automation Suite Robots, make sure you meet the requirements.

To enable Automation Suite Robots, take the following steps:

1. Enable the asrobots flag in the input.json file. If you want to enable package caching, make sure to properly configure the packagecaching and packagecachefolder flags as well.

   {
     "asrobots": {
        "enabled": Boolean,
        "packagecaching": Boolean,
        "packagecachefolder": String
     }
   }
   

   Parameter	Default value	Description
   packagecaching	true	When set to true, robots use a local cache for package resolution.
   packagecachefolder	/uipath_asrobots_package_cache	The disk location on the serverless agent node where the packages are stored.

   Note:

   Package caching optimizes your process runs and allows them to run faster. NuGet packages are fetched from the filesystem instead of being downloaded from the Internet/network. This requires an additional space of minimum 10GB and should be allocated to a folder on the host machine filesystem of the dedicated nodes.

2. If you use a multi-node HA-ready production setup, you must configure a specialized agent node for Automation Suite Robots.

To disable Automation Suite Robots, disable the asrobots flag in the input.json file.

Enabling or disabling Data Service

Data Service requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_DataService.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Data Service field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Data Service in input.json:

"dataservice": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the Data Service,
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Enabling or disabling Document Understanding

Document Understanding requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template_odbc in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_DU_Datamanager.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Document Understanding field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template_odbc.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Document Understanding in input.json:

"documentunderstanding": { 
"enabled": true,
"sql_connection_str": "***" // dotnet connection string,
"datamanager": {
 "sql_connection_str": "***" // odbc connection string
 "pyodbc_sql_connection_str": "***" // python sql connection string
 }
}

Enabling or disabling Insights

Insights requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_Insights.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Insights field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template.

To enable the Insights Real-time monitoring feature, set the enable_realtime_monitoring flag to true.

Insights has an optional SMTP configuration to enable receiving email notifications. For details, see Configuring input.json.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Insights in input.json:

"insights": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the Insights,
  "enable_realtime_monitoring": "false", //Set to "true" to enable Insights Real-time monitoring,
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Enabling or disabling Orchestrator

To enable Orchestrator, set the orchestrator flag to true in the input.json file.

"orchestrator": {
  "enabled": "true" //Set to "false" to disable Orchestrator
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

To disable Orchestrator, set the orchestrator flag to false in the input.json file.

Enabling or disabling Process Mining

To enable Process Mining, make the following changes to the input.json file:

1. Enable the processmining flag.
2. Configure the following connection string templates:
   • sql_connection_string_template
   • sql_connection_string_template_jdbc
   • sql_connection_string_template_odbc
   • sql_connection_string_template_sqlalchemy_pyodbc
3. Add a separate connection string for the second SQL Server:

   "processmining": {
     "enabled": true,
     "sql_connection_str": "", // dotnet connection string
     "sqlalchemy_pyodbc_sql_connection_str": "", 
     "warehouse": {
           "sql_connection_str": "",
           "sqlalchemy_pyodbc_sql_connection_str": ""
        }
   }
   

To disable Process Mining, disable the processmining flag.

Enabling or disabling Task Mining

Task Mining requires update the enable flag and an SQL Database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_Task_Mining.

To change the name to something other than the default, you can update the sql_connection_str inside the Task Mining field to override the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template

Task Mining requires a few additional steps, including the provisioning of a dedicated agent node for AI-specific workloads.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Task Mining in input.json:

"task_mining": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the Task Mining,
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Un-tainting for workloads

If desired, the Task Mining node can be repurposed as an agent node. To accomplish this, run the following commands:

1. Check an actual taint using kubectl describe node task-mining_nodename command.
2. Run the command kubectl taint nodes task-mining_nodename task.mining/cpu=present:NoSchedule-.
3. Check taint has disappeared using kubectl describe node task-mining_nodename command.

Enabling or disabling Test Manager

Test Manager requires updating the enable flag and an SQL database.

If you previously set a value for sql_connection_string_template in input.json, then the default database name is AutomationSuite_Test_Manager.

To change the default database name, you need to update the sql_connection_str inside the Test Manager field. This overrides the default database and connection string template set in sql_connection_string_template.

See the following configuration details for enabling or disabling Test Manager in input.json:

"test_manager": {
  "enabled": "true", //Set to "false" to disable the Test Manager,
  "sql_connection_str": "" //Optional and only require to override the default database name
}

Step 2: Running the installer to update the new product configuration

Once you update the input.json, run the following commands with the uipathctl installer to update the service configuration:

1. Run the following command to get an output of what changes will be made to the cluster:

   # uipathctl manifest apply --dry-run input.json --versions versions.json
   automationhub deleted (dry-run)
   platform updated (dry-run)
   

2. To apply the changes on the cluster, run:

   # uipathctl manifest apply input.json --versions versions.json --log-level info --skip-helm