Install the control room utility on the windows machine where you deploy the Control Room AWS account.

Log in to the server as an administrator and install Control Room in Custom mode to select installation and configuration options, including installing non-default requirements.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have the following:
  • Control Room installation file. Download the installation file from A-People Downloads page (Login required).
  • Additional hardware specification of 2 GB RAM and 300 MB disk space.
  • TLS certificate
  • License file

Procedure

  1. Extract all files from the Automation360_Build_<build-number>.zip file.
  2. Right-click the Automation360.exe file and select Run as administrator.
  3. Accept the licensing agreement and click Next.
  4. Enable the Cloud Service Orchestrator check box in the Control Room Service Startup Options page of the wizard.
    Enabling this check box installs the following component that the cloud service requires:
    • Bot agent orchestrator
    • AWS CLI
    • Kubernetes CLI
    Ensure that you enter 4690 as the port number.
  5. Select the Custom option and click Next.
    The Destination Folder page appears. By default, the destination folder is C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\.
  6. Click Next to complete the installation.

Next steps

Run the following command to create the required properties file post installation:
C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\Automation360\jdk11\bin\java.exe -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\Automation360\pki\trust\store.ks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit -Dlog4j.configurationFile=C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\Automation360\config\log4j2-orchestrator.xml -Dext.properties.dir=C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\Automation360\config -jar C:\Program Files\Automation Anywhere\Automation360\ba-orchestrator-service.jar onpremutil -install  -account=MyAccount -region=MyRegion
where MyAccount is the AWS account ID and MyRegion is the AWS region.