Installation

Action Center is available for on-premises installation, allowing you to manage actions from a dedicated user interface, other than the Actions tab in the corresponding Orchestrator instance.

Although Action Center relies on an existing Orchestrator instance, it can be installed on a separate server or the same server as Orchestrator.

The authentication and authorization aspects are managed through a corresponding Identity Server instance and Orchestrator instance, as provided during the Action Center installation procedure.

Compatibility

Orchestrator

Customers using Actions Center within Orchestrator do not have to perform any additional steps other than pointing the Action Center instance to an existing v2020.10 Orchestrator instance. All the existing actions will be reflected to end-users in the new Action Center portal as per the access control defined in a corresponding Orchestrator tenant.

The Actions tab and functionality within Orchestrator continues to be supported until a future release. However, we recommend routing your users to the new Action Center interface for a better user experience and any new features in future releases.

Supported Topologies

Single Node Scenarios

• Action Center running on the same server as Orchestrator (different port).
• Action Center running on a single node server pointing to a separate single node Orchestrator instance.

Multi-Node Scenarios

• Multi-node Orchestrator behind a load balancer:

  • A single Action Center instance installed on a different server pointing to the Orchestrator load balancer URL.
  • Action Center installed on all Orchestrator nodes, each pointing to the Orchestrator load balancer URL.
  • Business users exposed to a load-balanced Action Center URL.

Orchestrator Settings to Accept Storage Bucket Requests From Action Center

Features within Action Center that rely on Orchestrator storage buckets (Images & PDF rendering on Form actions, Document Classification & Document Validation actions) require the following configuration changes in Orchestrator to function as expected:

1. Accept Action Center requests to Orchestrator
2. Go to the Orchestrator installation folder.
3. Open the UiPath.Orchestrator.dll.config file with administrative permissions.
4. Add the Action Center URL in the Authorization section using the AcceptedRootUrls parameter.
   For example: <add key="AcceptedRootUrls" value="http://localhost:6234,https://ACTION_CENTER_ROOT_URL:PORT" />.

   Important:

   • Make sure the value of the AcceptedRootUrls key does not include space characters.
   • Only add the PORT value if it is different than 80 or 443 (default ports).
5. Allow the OPTIONS verb in IIS for the Orchestrator website:
6. Navigate to IIS
7. Select UiPath Orchestrator from the Sites list
8. Click Request Filtering. The Request Filtering window is displayed.
9. Right-click in the window and select Allow Verb
   
   

   

   
   
10. Enter OPTIONS and click OK.
    
    

    

    
    
11. Reset IIS for the changes to take effect.

For other storage buckets like Amazon S3 and Azure, see CORS/CSP Configuration for details on how to configure CORS and CSP settings.

Command Line Parameters

It is possible to install or update the entire UiPath suite using the command line, provided you have the UiPath Action Center Windows installer (UiPathActionCenter.msi). The table below lists all the available parameters you can use with Orchestrator, paired with some examples.

Parameter	Description
/q	Helps you install the specified UiPath features silently, without displaying the user interface.
/L*V <LogFile>	Generates an installer log file at the specified path. You can send the file further to our support team if, for any reason, you encounter difficulties during the installation process.
HOST_NAME	The hostname of the device on which Action Center is installed.
WEBSITE_PORT	An unused port on the server. Use a different port than Orchestrator, if installed on the same server. If not specified, the default value (443) is used to enable HTTPS.
CERTIFICATE_SUBJECT	The name of the SSL certificate you want to use to secure connections with Action Center. If not specified, by default, the full computer name is used. Please specify thumbprint if there are multiple certificates with the same subject.
INSTALLDIR	Enables you to install Action Center at a custom location. By default, it is installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\UiPath\ActionCenter. :fa-warning: You need Readand Writepermissions on the installation directory.
PORT_FIREWALL	Enables you to select if firewall rules are automatically added for this port. The available options are: 0 - Firewall rules are not added. 1 - Firewall rules are added.
PORT_DO_VALIDATE	Enables you to select if validation of the website port availability is performed. The available options are: 0 - No validation is performed. 1 - A validation is performed. The default value is 1.
APPPOOL_IDENTITY_TYPE	The type of application pool you are using for Action Center. The available options are: SpecificUser and ApplicationPoolIdentity.
APPPOOL_USER_NAME	The username running the application pool. This parameter needs to be included only if APPPOOL_IDENTITY_TYPE was set to USER.
APPPOOL_USER_PASSWORD	The password of the user running the application pool. This parameter needs to be included only if APPPOOL_IDENTITY_TYPE was set to USER.
ORCHESTRATOR_URL	The URL of the Orchestrator instance. Used by Action Center for all communication with Orchestrator.
IDENTITY_URL	The URL of the Identity Server instance.
ACTION_CENTER_URL	The Base URL of Action Center.
IDENTITY_INSTALLATION_TOKEN	The access token taken from the Identity Management Portal. See Accessing Identity Management Portal for details.

Examples

These examples have been written considering that you are already in the directory in which the UiPathActionCenter.msi installer is located. You can do this with the following command, for example: cd D:\UiPathActionCenter.msi.

Clean Installing Action Center

msiexec /i UiPathActionCenter.msi^
HOST_NAME="ACTION_CENTER_HOSTNAME"^
WEBSITE_PORT="444"^
CERTIFICATE_SUBJECT="ACTION_CENTER_HOSTNAME"^
INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\UiPath\ActionCenter"^
APPPOOL_IDENTITY_TYPE="ApplicationPoolIdentity"^
PORT_FIREWALL="1"^
ORCHESTRATOR_URL="https://ORCHESTRATOR_URL"^
IDENTITY_URL="https://ORCHESTRATOR_URL/identity"^
ACTION_CENTER_URL="https://ACTION_CENTER_HOSTNAME:444/"^
IDENTITY_INSTALLATION_TOKEN="eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IkUyNjk3MDQzQjE1Q0QwRDlBMjBCQkZGODVGQjkyMTk2NkI4N0VFQTQiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJ4NXQiOiI0bWx3UTdGYzBObWlDN180WDdraGxtdUg3cVEifQ.eyJuYmYiOjE1OTkwNjk0NTQsImV4cCI6MTU5OTA3MzA1NCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9ndXJwcmVldHVpcGF0aC9pZGVudGl0eSIsImNsaWVudF9pZCI6ImdlbmVyYXRlZENsaWVudCIsImF1ZCI6IklkZW50aXR5U2VydmVyQXBpIiwic2NvcGUiOlsiSWRlbnRpdHlTZXJ2ZXJDbGllbnRNYW5hZ2VtZW50Il19.MV9ehC8D5uBcg8PFRb8FPHv05oeFRwZgJURv2GUcmUxvQo3hzdjsxomMXoCHJiNQlqLxqsIzYrgfjwKcpVEchfyWl6HcqKvT_1s8eC3DP9qdrQJtuCrBJqgUcC99v3NaJ6UbdKYVtFDiPlIEetmqsl5ET2Dp0lNxxWle5Zp_p91U-I7SqRHz8lOm0oG0pyKeft53S7jM5Jj2Utr7bLb46ci2cmLgrwsH3Mu7rKOUCtfGHgaNvXoW5XZh9s2OYitZ-XRkCuncjXKoo9pSz7jq8MqVaLnxVRcFrpH2kDRfUew4CMeMJ-lx75maxWyElp9RnxDPykD6wXJAIPFsnuTqQA"^
/L*V "C:\InstallationLogs.log"^
/q

Uninstalling Action Center

msiexec /uninstall UiPathActionCenter.msi