Edit device pools - As a Control Room user with device pool management privileges or as a device pool owner, you can edit device pool details to customize your automation requirements.

Automation 360

As a Control Room user with device pool management privileges or as a device pool owner, you can edit device pool details to customize your automation requirements.

Before you begin

  • You must have Device pool owner, Device pool admin, or a custom role containing the Administer ALL device pools permission to edit a device pool.
  • Users without AAE_Admin role must have the following permissions to edit a device pool:
    Note: Automation 360 supports custom role creation by allowing all permissions to be non-default and editable. However, for releases before version v30, system-created roles such as, AAE_Admin are mandatory. For more information, see System-created roles.
    • View and manage ALL device(s) to add or delete the devices
    • View Users and Roles basic information to add or delete the owners and consumers
  • To add a device in the device pool, you must install it as a system-wide device (Bot Agent).
  • You can only add a device with the same platform into the corresponding device pool. For example, if you have created a macOS based device pool, you can only add macOS based devices into this pool.
  • After you add the device, you cannot add the same device to another device pool.

About this task

When you open the device pool in edit mode, you can update the queue details such as Bot Runner, Owners, Participants, and Consumers.

Procedure

  1. Go to Manage > Device Pools.
    The Device Pools tab is visible only if you have Device pool admin role or you are an owner of any device pool.
  2. Locate the device pool you want to edit, hover over the actions menu (vertical ellipsis), and click Edit.
    You can also edit the device pool details in view mode. For more information, see View device pool
    The Device pool details page is displayed with the default Scheduled Automations tab.
  3. Set the Queue Execution mode to edit workload automations.

    Go to the Run with queue automations tab, then choose one of the following options to define the order in which your automations run in the queues:

    • Round robin: Runs your automations at equal time intervals in the Time slice field. For more information, see Round robin.
      Note: WLM can only process one queue at a time when a device pool is shared.

      For example, if a device pool is shared between two queues in round-robin mode (time-slice 60 minutes), then for the first 60 minutes, first queue (Q1) will be processed while the second queue (Q2) will not be processed (even if there are available resources). Then for the next 60 minutes, Q2 will be processed and Q1 will remain idle. For more information about time slice setting, see A360 | WLM | Queries regarding the time slice settings in the Device pool (A-People login required).

    • Priority as shown in table: Runs your automations based on a priority defined in the priority table. For more information, see Priority as shown in table.
  4. Update the list of unattended Bot Runner devices that are included in the device pool.
  5. Update the list of device pool owners who are granted permission to view, edit, and delete the device pool.
  6. Update the list of device pool consumers who are granted permission to view the device pool.
  7. Click Save changes.
For more details about adding or removing device from device pool, see How to Add and Remove devices from a Device pool without stopping the WLM queue (A-People login required).