About Rapid Automation Agents

Agents are the objects that establish the connection between the Automation Engine and the application or operating system where Jobs are processed. Agents start, monitor and report the current status of the Jobs.

The term Rapid Automation refers to a generic technology that is able to include and process various automation solutions in Automation Engine. The solutions are realized through Rapid Automation (RA) solutions. RA Agents make the functions of an RA solution accessible.

After loading an RA .jar file into the Automation Engine, you will be able to define RA Agent-specific connection, Agent, and Job objects with unique screens. The topics in this guide describe how to use these RA screens, not how to define connection, Agent, and Job objects. For information on creating these objects, see your Automation Engine or documentation.

Using Object Variables in Fields

You can use object variables in the format &<variable name> in most fields on Rapid Automation panels. The values of these object variables will be replaced at run time.

It is recommended that you terminate object variable names with a # character.