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Automation Anywhere Prerequisites

This section describes the information you need to collect from the Automation Anywhere Control Room to configure a connection to SailPoint.

To configure Automation Anywhere with the RPA connector, you need the following:

  • Control Room Base URL
  • Service Account Username and Password
  • Run As User ID(s)
  • Device Pool ID(s) (optional)
  • Bot File IDs (for provisioning operations)

Control Room Base URL

The base URL is the root URL of your Automation Anywhere Control Room instance.

To find the base URL:

  1. Log in to your Automation Anywhere Control Room.
  2. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
  3. Remove any trailing slashes (/) or path segments from the end of the URL. The base URL must not contain anything after the domain name.

Examples

  • Correct: https://community.cloud.automationanywhere.digital
  • Incorrect: https://community.cloud.automationanywhere.digital/ (trailing slash)
  • Incorrect: https://community.cloud.automationanywhere.digital/v2/authentication (path segment)

Run As User ID

The Run As User is the Automation Anywhere user account that executes the bot. You must configure at least one Run As User ID.

To find the User ID, do the following:

  1. Log in to your Automation Anywhere Control Room as an administrator.
  2. Go to Administration > Users.
  3. Select the user that the bot will run as.

  4. From your browser's address bar, copy the numeric ID at the end of the URL.

    • Example URL: .../users/edit/900910
    • User ID: 900910

Important

The Run As User must have an active, licensed Bot Runner device assigned in the Control Room. Bot deployment fails if a device is not assigned.

Device Pool ID (Optional)

If your bots execute on a specific device pool, you must configure the Device Pool ID. If you leave this parameter empty, the system uses the default device assigned to the Run As User.

To find the device pool ID, do the following:

  1. Log in to your Automation Anywhere Control Room as an administrator.
  2. Go to Administration > Device Pools.
  3. Select the device pool that the bot will run on.

  4. From your browser's address bar, copy the numeric ID at the end of the URL.

    • Example URL: .../device-pools/123
    • Pool ID: 123

Bot File IDs

Each provisioning operation (Create, Update, Delete, Enable, Disable) requires a dedicated Automation Anywhere bot. The bot file ID is the numeric identifier for the bot in the Control Room.

To find a bot file ID, do the following:

  1. Log in to your Automation Anywhere Control Room.
  2. Go to Automation > My bots or Public bots, depending on where the bot is stored.
  3. Select the bot that corresponds to the provisioning operation.

  4. From your browser's address bar, copy the numeric ID at the end of the URL.

    • Example URL: .../bots/edit/112233
    • Bot File ID: 112233

Required Provisioning Operations

Configure only the bot file IDs for the operations your deployment requires. For example, if you only use Create and Update operations, only the CREATE Bot File ID and UPDATE Bot File ID are required.

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