Bot monitoring

A major new enhancement in v2.20 is the ability to monitor the bots and what they have or are currently doing. This is referred to the “Bot Monitoring” user interface, and it is only available during a playback.

After a playback is triggered and in the “Monitoring” tab of the execution queue, the “Active Bots” grid provides a new button:

Bot Monitoring

After selecting this button, the list of bots will be polled in real-time and asked for various information.

Bot Monitoring

The fields shown in this popup grid are:

• Bot information – Provides general information about the bot such as name, IP address, host-name etc
• Bot status – Provides the current status of the bot
• Response time – The very first call to the bot is turned into a response time
• Currently open SAP GUI windows – This represents the number of SAP GUI windows the bot current has open
• Total memory – This is the total amount of RAM the bot machine has (e.g. 4Gb, 8Gb)
• Free memory – This is the current amount of free memory (RAM) that the bot machine has at the point of the call to it
• % Free Memory – This is simply a % calculation of free memory compared to total memory
• Number of batch jobs – This is the total number of batch jobs the bot has triggered since start-up
• Number of RFC’s – The total number of RFC calls that the bot has made to the target system(s) since start-up
• Number of Dialog steps – This is the total number of dialog steps that have been executed by the bot since start-up
• Number of User sessions opened – This is the total number of user sessions that the bot has opened since start-up
• Number of ABAP sessions opened – This represents the number of ABAP sessions that have been opened by the bot since start-up
• Total number of steps – The represents the total number of steps executed by the bot since start-up