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Triggering blue prism web service from an external tool

naagarajsv — Thu, 13 May 2021 10:03:00 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to trigger a blue prism webservice from an external tool.

should the external tool have connectivity to the BP runtime resources on port 8181.

Is this connectivity enough for the integration.

Thanks

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naagaraj sv
analyst
Accenture
Asia/Kolkata
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RE: Triggering blue prism web service from an external tool

ewilson — Thu, 13 May 2021 11:52:00 GMT

If you've exposed the Blue Prism process as a SOAP web service then yes, the external program must have access to IP/hostname and port 8181 of the runtime resource instance in order to interact with that process.

There are other ways of designing this (ex. using a load balancer in front of the BL instances), but those depend on your overall network design.

NOTE: Port 8181 is the default port, but you can change that in the runtime resource configuration if you want to use a different port.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: Triggering blue prism web service from an external tool

RobertNew — Thu, 13 May 2021 12:37:00 GMT

Hi,

look up the web services guide in the BP portal under documents, there is a dedicated section on exposing a process or BO as a web service and gives the exact URL structure that is needed once exposed.

regards,

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Robert New
Senior Mentor / Developer
Smart Automation Services Limited
Europe/London
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RE: Triggering blue prism web service from an external tool

Walter.Koller — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:12:00 GMT

We are using BP web services for PEGA and did tests with SOAPUI, without much to be considered.
Depending on the processes that should be executed in BP when calling the WS, you might need to adjust time-out settings on the caller side, in case of synchronous execution.
You will also need a user / credential in BP for the external system to authenticate.
That's all we had to take care of as far as I remember but we also don't use transport layer encryption, which needs some additional configuration.

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Walter Koller
Solution Manager
Erste Group IT International GmbH
Europe/Vienna
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