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Topology best practice

WilliamPatterso — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:26:00 GMT

Hello everyone, What is the best topology to use for a production environment? We will have about 50 robots. Two questions: 1. Is there documentation on setting up an application server (between robot and the DB)? I cant seem to find that anywhere. 2. Is it common practice to put a load balancer between the robots and a couple application servers incase one app server goes down? Thank you for your help! Bill

Hi Bill - there's no single

John__Carter — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:13:00 GMT

Hi Bill - there's no single answer to 'best topology' but a good place to start is here https://portal.blueprism.com/system/files/product/productpublic/5.0/Infrastructure%20and%20Installation/Blue%20Prism%20Data%20Sheet%20-%20Infrastructure%20Overview%20v5.0%20Enterprise%20Edition.pdfApp server set up details are in the installation guide.A load balancer is an option, and the recommendation is to have about 100 robots per app server.

You should use Resource Pools

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:54:00 GMT

You should use Resource Pools as peterlacken suggested. You can also put a Load Balancer in front of App Servers and have Robots configured with LB. Just last week BP folks confirmed that I can use LB. I am going to try it out first before putting it in Prod...