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Maintenance Mode

Maintenance Mode can be found inside the “BMT Settings” dropdown menu.This feature enables users to take the Robot and Server offline. It provides an option to temporarily stop all the activities occurring either in the Robot or the Bot Manager Server for the purpose of Maintenance.

The Maintenance Mode tab displays a table showing details such as Type, Start Date Time, End Date Time, State and Started By.

There are two different types of Maintenance Mode:

  • Machine Maintenance: All Robots connected to a particular machine will undergo maintenance.
  • Server Maintenance: This will temporarily bring down the specific Bot Manager environment and no activities can be performed

Maintenance mode has three main states:

  • Initialized: This state specifies that the maintenance has been started in a particular machine or server.
  • In-Maintenance: The status of the machine/server will be shown as “In-Maintenance” if a particular machine/server has been selected to undergo maintenance.
  • Completed: This state specifies that the maintenance has been completed in a machine or server.

Show Filter

Using the ‘Show filter’ option, the user can filter the maintenance based on the Type and State.

The “Search” button can be clicked after entering the required data in the respective field(s).

The “Refresh” button helps to reload the tab so that the user can see the latest created Maintenance Mode details.

Steps to start maintenance mode:

  1. Click on the “Start Maintenance Mode” button.
  2. In the new window that will appear, select either Machine Maintenance or Server Maintenance the requirement for the maintenance.

Server Maintenance

  • If the “Server Maintenance” option is selected then, enter the amount of time needed for server maintenance in the ‘Expire Time’ field
  • Click on the “Start” button. A message will be displayed as shown below:

Note: The “Stop Maintenance” option displayed in the above image will only be available to users with Admin privileges.

Machine Maintenance

  • If the “Machine Maintenance” option is selected then, select the machine(s) under the ‘Machine Name’ field and enter the amount of time needed for machine maintenance in the ‘Expire Time’ field.
  • Click on the “Start” button.

As the Maintenance Mode is initiated, it displays the state as ‘In-Maintenance’. Once, the Expire Time is elapsed and the maintenance for that machine is over, the ‘In-Maintenance’ state will change to ‘Completed’.

Note: The user will not be able to start any job through a robot that is connected to a machine while it is in Maintenance Mode. Also, no user can halt the robot maintenance. Robots will normally be brought back to a functional state after the ‘expire time’ has elapsed i.e. after the maintenance is finished.