ATA02 Designing a Blue Prism (Version 6.0) Environment Questions and Answers

The Blue Prism interactive client can be used on its own to monitor the environment in its entirety

Monitoring of Blue Prism is not necessary

External Monitoring tools should be used to monitor system performance

Event logs should be monitored for application errors

Process execution related errors may need to be dealt with by a business operations team

Process related errors are automatically sent to the event log

Providing high availability for the Runtime Resource will guarantee the SLAs for a business process.

External Load balancing solutions may be used to direct connections from a runtime resource to an appropriate application server.

DNS round robin with a low Time to live (TTL) setting may be employed as a simple mechanism for distributing connections between multiple application servers.

Set each Runtime Resource to point to at least 2 application servers in its configuration file.

Redundancy - e.g. to provide a level of continuity if one Application Server fails

To increase the overall security of the environment

The number of connected clients and runtime resources

The Application Server doubles up as a Web Server for a separate application