November 2022

November 2022 release notes for Robot in Automation Cloud.

November 21, 2022

Disabling Cloud Robots - VM Machines

We are now automatically disabling Cloud Robot - VM machines that are not licensed. This can happen either when your licensing plan expires, or if you do not have sufficient robot units for all of your machines.

If you are in this situation, a notification banner is displayed and you enter a 14-day grace period (Enterprise), or a 3-day grace period (Pro) before machines are disabled.

Acquiring or renewing the necessary licenses (licensing plan and robot units) before the grace period ends prevents machines from being disabled.

If you find that you have disabled machines, see the Disabled machines FAQs.

Automatic VMs for Cloud Robots

Escape the burden of creating and managing virtual machines for your Automation Cloud robots. We introduced the automatic option that allows us to create and manage virtual machine pools on your behalf. Just input the maximum number of machines the pool should contain, and make sure you have enough robot units for the machines to run.

For more details, see the relevant topics in Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM.

Automation Cloud Robots - VM Availability Profiles

Adjust your robot units consumption by selecting an availability profile for your machine. By choosing to automatically shut down your machines after an idle duration, you can recover and reuse their corresponding robot units.

You also have the option to keep your machines always on. Selecting another machine availability profile than the default one, extra robot units are consumed.