Unattended automation capacity planning

Plan your capacity and performance for Control Room On-Premises, understand the requirements, limits, and defaults that determine the number of simultaneous bots, user sessions, and processing rates for unattended automations.

Overview

Review the information on the maximum number of concurrent bot deployments and executions for On-Premises deployment.

The entity count in the following list provides information about the maximum number of entities that the Control Room can support irrespective of the machine resources. Deploying additional machine resources does not increase the entity count.

Control Room supports either of the following, for maximum number of concurrent bot deployments and executions:
  • 1000 devices for 1000 concurrent bot deployments and executions on Bot Runner sessions (typically in a production Control Room).
  • 700 devices for 700 concurrent bot deployments and executions on Bot Creator sessions (typically in a development Control Room).
Entity Type Count
Users 10,000*
Roles 5000*
Schedules 1500
Audit entries 10,000,000*
Lockers 100
Credentials 5000
Repository files

(Including all file types in the Control Room Public workspace)

Note: Repository files include dependent files that you check in to the Public workspace (visible on the UI) such as Task Bots, .atmx, .dll, .txt, .csv, and so on, and the related files from the database (not visible on the UI). For example, .png files generated after an automation is recorded are stored in the database and are included in the repository files.
 100,000*
Repository folders
Note: Applies to the public workspace.
 9000*
Queues

30
Device pools 10
Work Items

30 million

* Applicable from Automation 360 v.21 and later.

Concurrent bot deployments and executions

Control Room supports up to 1000 concurrent bot deployments and executions across the Control Room cluster. These 1000 bots can be a combination of the same or different bots.

Note: If you use different bots, because of the load, the compiler slows down the execution for the first-time deployment. For subsequent deployments, bot execution process might accelerate.
Control Room edition and configuration Number of Run as users
One instance of On-Premises Maximum 1000
Three instances of On-Premises with High Availability (HA) configuration Maximum 1000

The bot deployment depends on the network quality and the size of data that needs to be transferred from Control Room to Bot Agent.

Therefore, in the above scenario when the network connectivity speed is increased for the three Control Room instances, the network throughput improves, so the completion time will become shorter but the maximum accepted concurrent bot deployments will remain the same.

Bot concurrent schedules

Scheduling considerations when running bots repeatedly.

When configuring bots to run repeatedly on a schedule it is important to make sure that the time between runs does not drop below the total time for deployment and execution of the bot. Otherwise, sequential executions of the bot might overlap leading to unexpected behavior.

For example if it takes two (2) minutes to run a bot, do not schedule the bot to run every one (1) minute. The previous run cannot complete before the next run begins.

With the reference specification, it is possible to successfully configure concurrent schedules.

Activity Schedule data
Concurrent schedules 100
Run as user per schedule 10
Total concurrent bots 1000