Switch Bot Agent to a different Control Room - Switch the Bot Agent on a registered device to work with a different Control Room manually when you work on automations using different environments.
Switch the Bot Agent on a registered device to work with a
different Control Room manually when you work on automations using different
environments.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have the start, stop, and pause permissions to access and edit the
Windows
services.
About this task
Perform this task to manually associate your device with a different Control Room in the following scenarios:
When the Control Room is on a different release version.
When the setting to switch devices is not enabled in the Control Room.
Procedure
Stop the Bot Agent service from the local Windows Task
Manager.
Navigate to the following folder:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\AutomationAnywhere
Optional: Delete the registration.properties file.
Note: This is only required if you want to register the device in a different
Control Room environment. To view the Control Room where the device is registered, open the
Registration.properties file and check the value
for the Control Room URL.
Delete all .db files.
For example, AA-DB.mv.db file.
Log in to the Control Room.
Navigate to Manage > Devices.
Click the Connect local device icon.
Download and install the latest Bot Agent.
Return to the Devices page in the Control Room from the updated device to check the device
status.
The registration.properties file is not generated
immediately after the Bot Agent installation. It is
generated only when a user accesses a Control Room URL from that
device. If the device registration is successful, the machine is shown as
Connected and the
registration.properties file is created at the
specified location on the Bot Runner machine.
Navigate to the
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\AutomationAnywhere
folder to ensure that the registration.properties file is
present and verify the Bot Agent
update.