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Read the state of a Resource PC

ZdravkoBotushan — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:21:00 GMT

Hi guys,

I noticed that the scheduler I've set up doesn't always log in the machines. How can I read the State of a Resource PC programmatically, so I know if the machine went into "Idle" or is still in "Logged Out" and can automate that.

E.g. Read state of machine 01. I get "Logged Out". I have code that runs the log in process again, if the state is logged out.

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Zdravko Botushanov
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Europe/Sofia
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

EmersonF — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:11:00 GMT

You might be looking at this in the BPAResources table, it will return the name and current status of the machine!

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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ZdravkoBotushan — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:52:00 GMT

I want to read the state of the machine programmatically, not manually.

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Zdravko Botushanov
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Europe/Sofia
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ewilson — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:07:00 GMT

@ZdravkoBotushan,

@EmersonF's response is a programmatic example. There is no direct API exposed by Blue Prism for what you're looking for. You're options amount to:

Query the database, as Emerson alluded to.
Use the HTTP interface of each individual runtime resource to get it's status. You can find more about the HTTP interface in the BP help files.
Use the AutomateC CLI (you could call it via a VBO code stage).

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

EmersonF — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:13:00 GMT

As @Eric Wilson commented there are some ways to do this, I believe the simplest is you consulting the bank directly, but you can create a process that does this reading and saves a txt with the information and would schedule that process.

You could expose this process described above and get the result via SOAP Request, if any...

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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

EmersonF — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:20:00 GMT

You can also be using the CLI, look for "/resourcestatus" in Blue Prism CLI Journey - blueprism® DX

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Emerson Ferreira
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ZdravkoBotushan — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:20:00 GMT

Hi @EmersonF and @ewilson

Thank you for the answers.

To be honest, I did try the CMD options, which I found on the BP website.

The thing is, everything I found (e.g. the /resourcestatus one Emerson suggested) all return information on the sessions running on a resource PC and not the resource state.

What I really need is to know when a machine is not in its proper state. For example, sometimes, 1 of the machines goes into "Missing (X seconds)..." and I don't want to go and check every time. I want to make a simple process that checks if the machine is Idle, Logged Out or Missing and run a "shutdown /r /m",

I couldn't find neither a VBO, nor a Command Line function to get that.

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Zdravko Botushanov
Senior RPA Consultant
Human+
Europe/Sofia
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ewilson — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:05:00 GMT

@ZdravkoBotushan,

I don't believe there's any API or interface that will give you information about the logged-in state of a resource PC. You can get information about whether a resource PC is available to run a process, what specific state (ex pending, running, completed) sessions are on that resource, what types of processes it's available run, and whether it's online.

All of those options are available via the resource PC commands that can be executed via the HTTP interface on each runtime. You can find more about that interface at the following 2 links:

https://bpdocs.blueprism.com/bp-6-10/en-us/helpHTTPInterface.htm?Highlight=HTTP%20interface

https://bpdocs.blueprism.com/bp-6-10/en-us/helpResourcePCCommands.htm

Beyond that, there's a tool on the DX for monitoring resource PC's and sending email or text notifications if they become unresponsive.

https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/9648/solution/blue-prism-resource-pc-monitor

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

TusharVarshney — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:32:00 GMT

@ZdravkoBotushan I guess you should try the database query approach within a process and which keeps returning you current state.

Only additional point is that you should try this with no lock hint as executing select query back to back may impact the prod DB.

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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ewilson — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:51:00 GMT

@ZdravkoBotushan,

FWIW - You could try using the WMI interfaces via C# or VB.NET to determine if someone is logged in on a resource PC. Whatever process runs this check would probably need elevated permissions, but the combination of that and the other options listed above should give you most of what you're looking for I think.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ConradoMeli — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:15:00 GMT

Hi,

We did something like that for our "Launcher Robot". It tries to run a process on a resource, but if the resource does not "answer" correctly it check the error and send an email letting us know.

We use the "VBO AutomateC" to run the process and then check for the message that it throws. Then you can check the "reason" and decide what to do with that. There are two states that are easy to recognise, "BUSY" or "Connection time out". The second one i think is what you are looking for.

Let me know if this is what you are looking for, and i wil give you more details.

Regards,

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Conrado Meli
Managing Partner
Primus IA
America/Santiago
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

hlucil.jiri — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:28:00 GMT

Dear Eric, could you please specify what events Blue Prism Resource PC Monitor monitors. If the specific resource is offline ?

Then I also did not understand from the user guide of this tool where it installs. On one of the resources of a given environment ?

Thank you for the reply.

Jiri

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Jiri Hlucil
Blue Prism Developer
Sberbank CZ, a. s.
Europe/Prague
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

ewilson — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:28:00 GMT

@hlucil.jiri,

Presently, the runtime monitor service is only checking to see if the configured resource PC are reachable/responsive on the network. In other words it's performing a ping of each configured runtime resource using the HTTP interface.

The service only needs to be installed on a single machine somewhere in your network and then configured with the IP/hostname of each runtime resource you want it to monitor.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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RE: Read the state of a Resource PC

smssubhani — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 23:30:00 GMT

Hey Conrado, I am looking for same solution. could you please share details ?

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Mahaboobsubani Shaik
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