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Hi there,
Excellent question. Licensing in Blue prism breaks down into 4 major components; Processes, Sessions, Resources, and Alerts. Most commonly you'll hear people refer to it in terms of Robots, when in fact they are referring to Sessions. A session is an instance of a process performing work on a Runtime Resource. When you schedule a Runtime Resource to perform work with blue prism, it will consume a session on the license and not release it until the work has been stopped or completed. Often when you hear someone reference "10 licenses" it means that 10 concurrent sessions can be executed. Processes refers to how many Published processes are available in the control room. Resources refers to how many runtime resources can be connected in the envrionment, and Alerts are how many concurrent session alerts can be seen.
Let's take a quick example of sessions in progress. We are just starting out on our automation journey, and have a pilot of 1 process critical to the business that will run monday through friday 9-5 for now. We have purchased licensing for 10 sessions for the year, which means that at most we can run our process up to 10 times simultaneously across our Digital Workforce. In this example, that might mean that 10 runtime resources begin the work of our process at 9am every day, consuming all 10 sessions until 5pm, opening those back up for other work or processes to be done.
For more information on this, I highly recommend our Product Induction course on Blue Prism University.
Charles Trott
Senior Product Consultant
M: 737-212-9205
😧 +44 1925 964040 x679
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Hi Sapna,
It usually is 1 License a Robot which includes Database, AppServer and n number of Debug VM's connected.
Concurrent Session runs are being run on the same Robot?
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Rajath Gopal
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech
Asia/Kolkata
8904867411
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Hi there,
Excellent question. Licensing in Blue prism breaks down into 4 major components; Processes, Sessions, Resources, and Alerts. Most commonly you'll hear people refer to it in terms of Robots, when in fact they are referring to Sessions. A session is an instance of a process performing work on a Runtime Resource. When you schedule a Runtime Resource to perform work with blue prism, it will consume a session on the license and not release it until the work has been stopped or completed. Often when you hear someone reference "10 licenses" it means that 10 concurrent sessions can be executed. Processes refers to how many Published processes are available in the control room. Resources refers to how many runtime resources can be connected in the envrionment, and Alerts are how many concurrent session alerts can be seen.
Let's take a quick example of sessions in progress. We are just starting out on our automation journey, and have a pilot of 1 process critical to the business that will run monday through friday 9-5 for now. We have purchased licensing for 10 sessions for the year, which means that at most we can run our process up to 10 times simultaneously across our Digital Workforce. In this example, that might mean that 10 runtime resources begin the work of our process at 9am every day, consuming all 10 sessions until 5pm, opening those back up for other work or processes to be done.
For more information on this, I highly recommend our Product Induction course on Blue Prism University.
Charles Trott
Senior Product Consultant
M: 737-212-9205
😧 +44 1925 964040 x679
------Original Message------
Hi Sapna,
It usually is 1 License a Robot which includes Database, AppServer and n number of Debug VM's connected.
Concurrent Session runs are being run on the same Robot?
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Rajath Gopal
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech
Asia/Kolkata
8904867411
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The maximum number of sessions your license can support is determined by your licensing agreement. For more information on costs and navigating that agreement, I would reach out to a partner or sales representative.
The Product Induction course can be found at portal.blueprism.com. After registering, navigate to Blue Prism University and search for Product Induction.
Charles Trott
Senior Product Consultant
M: 737-212-9205
😧 +44 1925 964040 x679
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Thanks charles for this clarification. This helps a lot.
I have been hearing people having different opinions & understanding in terms of licensing & its usage. what is the max. no. of sessions a BP license can support? Are there different types of licenses?
Also, can you please navigate me to this course - Product Induction course ,as i cannot find it.
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sapna soni
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Capgemini Pvt Ltd
Asia/Kolkata
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