Bot completion check

[Sanoza]

How to check all the bots are completed with processing from next process.
Lets assume process 1 is doing by n bots.
And process 2 wants to start upon completion of process 1 in all bots.

 

[sivagelli]

You can try using Powershell with AutomateC.exe switches to know the status of process 1. Once the process is completed, you can trigger process 2 from Powershell and AutomateC.exe.

There could be other ways as well.

 

[Sanoza]

Thanks for your reply.
Can you please help to explain a bit more.
I am not familiar to powershell.

 

[chrifmarwen]

I'll push further @sivageli solution (Solution 1):

1) If you open your Shell command (windows+R, then type "cmd" and click OK) and then go under "Blue Prism Automate", you'll find AutomateC.exe
2) Now if you launch "AutomateC.exe", it will ask you to put /help option
3) With the command "AutomateC.exe /help", i figured out that there is a status command formated like follow :

> AutomateC.exe /status SESSION_ID /user username password (i used sso authentication in my case)

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4) The result of this command output the status of the session that's running

Now the problem is transformed to :
- how you'll shared your session id / or how you'll get them
- how to launch this command from an action stage (maybe there is a Standard action for this one, i'm not sure)

* (Solution 2) Otherwise, if you could estimate how long the process 1; scheduling process 2 after this duration could also be a hint if it's acceptable
* (Solution 3) Other solution is to share a Queue
=> So Process A have a Queue A, all bots will work on this queue and update it on the flow
=> Process B will be launched and check if Queue A has any item that are not processed yet (if yes the exist, otherwise process B will be launched)

 

[sivagelli]

Now the problem is transformed to :
- how you'll shared your session id / or how you'll get them
- how to launch this command from an action stage (maybe there is a Standard action for this one, i'm not sure)

If you kick-off your execution from Command line using AutomateC.exe /run <ProcessName>, it will give you Session Id. Please check this youtube video BP and Commandline
Now, you can look for the Process status periodically and kick-off the other process; thru Powershell program.

You might have to purely rely on terminal without UI.


Solution 3 is another option.

(Solution 3) Other solution is to share a Queue
=> So Process A have a Queue A, all bots will work on this queue and update it on the flow
=> Process B will be launched and check if Queue A has any item that are not processed yet (if yes the exist, otherwise process B will be launched)

 

[VJR]

How to check all the bots are completed with processing from next process.
Lets assume process 1 is doing by n bots.
And process 2 wants to start upon completion of process 1 in all bots.

I am not sure if I fully understand because you mentioned 1 process n bots, but can you not use the Process stage at the end of Process 1 in order to call Process 2? If you are concerned about starting Process 2 after running Process 1 then this could be a solution.
And if you are concerned about successful completion of Process 1 then you can maintain a (True/False) flag variable and at the end of Process 1 read the value of this flag and if it is True only then call the Process 2 using the Process stage. You could also think of having a Session variable.

If there is something more to it then please share.

 

[Sanoza]

Thank you all for your time and detailed explanation.
Let me check and revert.

 

[amit1204]

My processA can run on 3 servers and processB tries to trigger it.
When processB triggers processA on server 1 it gives error as server is busy. Then process B has to trigger process A on server 2.
In the above scenario I'm not able to extract the status of process A when run on server 1from powershell using process B so that I should come to know whether to run on server 2 or the process A started running on server 1 .
Please help to find the status of process from BP using powershell.

Thanks

 

[jigibaby1]

I think you trying to maintain load-balancing. Which ever server/bot is free, it will start execution of Process A and once it's over there is should be some mechanism to pass completion status to Process B which runs on different server.