Checking the infrastructure prerequisites

Prerequisite checks help you ensure that the required cloud infrastructure is provisioned appropriately and is accessible by the client machine before starting the Automation Suite installation.

For a list of prerequisite checks that the Automation Suite installer performs, see Prerequisite checks.

Generating configurations automatically

The Automation Suite installer can automatically generate the following configurations on your behalf:

• The SQL databases required for the installation on the SQL server based if the sql.create_db key is set in your input.json file.
• The object storage buckets required in your cloud provider if the external_object_storage.create_bucket key is set in the configuration file.

To allow the installer to generate these configurations, run the following command:

uipathctl prereq create input.json --versions versions.json

For details on the flags that you can use with the uipathctl prereq create command, see uipathctl prereq create.

Important:

The uipathctl prereq create command does not create the required SQL databases for Process Mining. You must manually create them by following the instructions in Bring your own database.

Checking the prerequisites

To check the prerequisites based on the inputs you configured in the input.json, run the following command:

uipathctl prereq run input.json --versions versions.json

For details on the flags that you can use with the uipathctl prereq run command, see uipathctl prereq run.

By default, the uipathctl prereq command checks all the prerequisites. Alternatively, the command also allows you to run strictly the checks that are relevant to you, as follows:

• If you want to exclude components from the execution, use the --excluded flag. For example, if you do not want to check the database connection strings, run uipathctl prereq --excluded SQL. The command runs all the prerequisite checks except for the SQL-related one.
• If you want to include only certain components in the execution, use the --included flag. For example, if you only want to check the DNS and objectstore, run uipathctl prereq --included DNS,OBJECTSTORAGE.

Note:

You can find the names of the components you can include or exclude from the prerequisite checks in the prerequisite check output. In the example, the first word on each outdented line represents the component name. For example: SQL, OBJECTSTORE, DNS, etc.