The RWM application was deprecated with Appian 24.1. The application will no longer be updated or pre-installed for new Appian Cloud sites with Appian RPA enabled. RWM will be removed in a future release and we encourage customers to use the Operations Console to manage robots instead. |
Robotic Workforce Manager (RWM) requires a number of background processes to ensure that it stays continually up to date with information from external RPA systems, as well as Appian BPM processes. It also needs to update external systems.
While the details below may appear in other parts of the RWM documentation, the tables below provide a summary of all the background processing at a high level.
Name | Description | External System | Frequency | Primary Process |
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ETL Sync (non Blue Prism RPA vendors) | Retrieves data for processes, resources, sessions, queues, work items, queue items, exceptions, alerts | All RPA vendors except Blue Prism | Configurable in RWM with RWM_JD/UI/AA_ETL_TIME_INTERVAL , default 15 minutes |
RWM JD/UI/AA Wrapper Model |
ETL Sync (Blue Prism) | Retrieves data for processes, resources, sessions, queues, work items, queue items, exceptions, alerts | Blue Prism | Configurable in Blue Prism with the RWM ETL Scheduler, default 15 minutes | Blue Prism process: RWM_GetDataFromBPtoAppian , Appian Web APIs: BP_WS_updateResourceStatusDetails , BP_WS_toUpdateProcess , All BP_WS_ Web API Objects |
Start Process (non Blue Prism RPA vendors) | Starts process in external RPA system | All RPA vendors except Blue Prism | Executes immediately from user input via API call | RWM JD/UI/AA Start Process |
Start Process (Blue Prism) | Starts process in external RPA system | Blue Prism | Request sent to Blue Prism immediately, Blue Prism executes processes every 3 minutes | RWM Start Process |
Daily Scheduler | Starts scheduled processes in external RPA system | All RPA Vendors | Daily at 12:00 AM GMT | RWM Daily Process for Scheduler , RWM JD/AA Daily Process for Scheduler |
Update BPM processes | Retrieves all Appian process models and their instance details, including instance count | Appian BPM | Configurable in RWM with RWM_BPM_HB_TIMER_INTERVAL , by default 60 minutes |
RWM HB Dump BPM Process Models |
Background Processes