Test your environment with a local worker
Setup Utility offers you the possibility of doing an end-to-end validation of your environment by setting up a Local Worker.
The Local Worker is destined only for testing purposes. We do not recommend using it in production scenarios. The Desktop Service Workers will be appropriate for those circumstances.
Setting up the Local Worker will heavily depend on the state of the current environment. Setup Utility runs the diagnostic checks in order to determine if the environment is suitable for remote execution of tasks. You can always quickly validate your environment.
As seen in the above diagram, it is highly recommended that you validate the environment before starting going through Worker Management. If there are warnings in the diagnostic checks, make sure you go through them in search of something critical.
In case of failures, we don't recommend setting up the Local Worker. You might get into complicated situations that would require expert intervention.
Worker Management
The Worker Management page will provide ways to set up a Local Worker for testing purposes and dedicated Desktop Service Workers for different RPA tasks.
To add a new Local Worker, click on the Plus button to open up a dedicated dialog.
Inside the dialog you will need to provide the Link Token. The necessary token can be found in Control Room following this path:
- Access your dedicated Robocorp Control Room (possible URL: https://cloud.robocorp.com/)
- Make sure you select the right Organization and the right Workspace
- With the left side menu, navigate to the Unattended option where you'll find the Workers
- On the right central panel, you'll find the Linked Self-Hosted Workers section
- Click on Link Worker
- A dialog should show up giving you a unique token to use when linking the worker
- Copy to clipboard
Coming back to Setup Utility you'll have to paste the token in the Link Token field.
Afterwards, you can add a Worker Name.
Once you have all of fields filled in, you can Start the process.
Setup Utility will download the worker (the executable needed), will verify the download and the correct execution of the worker, will initialize the worker (a process in which the worker downloads and sets up the needed tools) and will link the Local Worker to Control Room.
If everything works fine, you will be guided to the Worker Diagnostics page.
Once linked, the Local Worker will be visible in the Linked Self-Hosted Workers section in Control Room with an Offline status.
Worker Diagnostics
When it comes to the workers, Setup Utility will monitor their execution and will keep you informed throughout the process.
You can now Start the Local Worker.
Once started, you will always have the possibility to Stop the execution.
Quitting the Setup Utility application will stop the Local Worker.
You can follow the execution by inspecting the Console Output or by Open Output Log.
If everything is working as expected, you can check the status of the worker in the Linked Self-Hosted Workers section in Control Room. The new status should be Idle. This means that the Local Worker is now capable of receiving tasks.
🚀 You are good to go!
Unlink Worker at any time. By unlinking, Setup Utility will break the connection with Control Room, but, for security reasons, will not delete the worker entry in Linked Self-Hosted Workers.