12/28/2018

Automation Anywhere Enterprise

Release Notes, Version 11.3.1
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Version Compatibility Matrix..............................................................................................................19
Version Comparison Matrix............................................................................................................... 21
Index............................................................................................................................................................ 24
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Automation Anywhere Enterprise Release Notes

This document for Automation Anywhere Enterprise (AAE) 11.3.x describes new features, enhancements,
and issues resolved.
This document consists of the following sections:
• New Features
• Changed Features
• Fixed Features
• Security Fixes
• Upgrade Considerations
• Known Limitations

New Features

•
Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.3.1 is a full production release with support for following
new and enhanced Control Room capabilities in addition to 11.3 features.

Control Room Features Description

Support for Oracle as a
Control Room database (Zendesk
#75665,100225)
• You can now choose to store the Control Room
database in Oracle.
• Control Room 11.3.1 supports Oracle version
12.1.x.
• With the support for Oracle in this release, you can
now select either SQL Server or Oracle to store
the Control Room database during the Custom
installation.
• For Express installation, the Control Room
database will be created in SQL Server by default.

Support for multiple Global
Catalog (Zendesk #105259,
105535, 109590, 114510)
• Prior to 11.3.1, the Control Room admin can
configure Active Directory using the LDAP URL
of a single Domain Controller (or Global Catalog)
which at times can lead to single point of failure.
• The Active Directory configuration is now
enhanced to support URLs of multiple Global
Catalog per forest so that if one Global Catalog in
a forest goes down the other can serve.
• With 11.3.1, the new capability ensures all Active
Directory users have continued access to the
Control Room thereby maintaining business
continuity.
• This feature does not provide support for load
balanced URL of Active Directory in Control Room.

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Control Room Features
Support for traceablility of
System Restart, Shutdown or Log
off during bot execution (Zendesk
#81361, 87754)
Enhanced Audit Log entry
for Import Bot packages (Zendesk
#100193)
Support for Japanese RPA
(Zendesk #89692, 76395)
Enhanced Scheduler APIs
Description
• An audit entry is logged whenever a Bot Runner
machine restarts or shutdown automatically or
via System command in Task Bot, during the bot
execution.
• When this event takes place, the ongoing
automation is marked as completed and the status
of Bot run is set to successful in the Audit Log.
• The Audit Log now shows all the Bots and files
(including dependencies) that were skipped or
overwritten during the import action in Bot Lifecycle
Management (BLM).
• This feature helps to identify Bots and files that
were not imported in destination Control Room.
Version 11.3 has been tested and certified to work on
Japanese Operating Systems, Language, Locale, and
Regional Settings. With 11.3, the RPA users can:
• Install Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control
Room and Client on a machine having Japanese
Operating System, Language, Locale and
Regional Settings.
• Automate applications (Web and Desktop) having
Japanese UI, text and controls values (e.g. push-
button having Japanese name, combo-box having
items in Japanese text etc.)
• Provide Japanese name to a Bot, Workflow and
Report in Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client.
• Provide Japanese name to Bot Schedules,
Automation Name and Description, Role Name
and Description, User’s First and Last Names,
Workload Pools, and Queues.
• Deploy a Bot having Japanese name onto Bot
Runners.
View the Japanese entities (names, description
etc.) across all the pages in Control Room.
AAE 11.3 provides even more APIs for Schedule
Management. With these APIs, Customers can create
their own custom dashboard to create and manage
Schedules. The dashboard can be localized and
customized as per the Customer’s choice (language,
display of fields etc.). This removes the dependency
on the Control Room and enables access of RPA
schedules across Third Party Applications and
dashboards.
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Control Room Features
Support for Attended and
Unattended Automation
Multi-forest Support (Zendesk
#47892,66487,101239)
Description
With 11.3, there is a clear segregation of Attended
and Unattended RPA within the product. Customers
can configure X number of attended automation users
and Y number of unattended automation users.
• Attended Users: This is a new category of
Automation Anywhere Enterprise users which
is introduced in the product. Users who are
tagged as attended automation users can run the
bots only on their own work-stations using the
Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client. These
users can also make use of local schedules and
triggers for time/event based automation. Main
usecase for Attended Users would be Front Office
Automation, where a Bot may require user input.
Bots cannot be deployed from Control Room to the
machines of Attended Users.
• Unattended Users: Unattended Users can perform
all automation tasks that Attended Users can
perform, such as manual run of Bot. Additionally,
Unattended Users can also be used for Control
Room deployment, centralized scheduling and API
based deployment. Unattended automation would
primarily be for Bots that do not require user input
and can also work on unmanned Machines/VMs/
VDIs/Cloud Infrastructure.
Note: A new license file is required to use this feature
With 11.3, Automation Anywhere supports Active
Directory multi-domain as well as multi-forest
deployments. This ensures RPA Infrastructure can be
spread across multiple Active Directory (AD) forests.
For example, all Bot Creators and Bot Runners,
across the AD forests in enterprise, can connect
to a single Control Room configured in any of the
forests. This significantly reduces deployment and
management of separate RPA instances across the
AD forests. This also enables rapid RPA scaling
without making too many changes to IT Infrastructure.
Note: Two-way trust relationship should be
configured for Active Directory forests.
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Control Room Features
Chat-Bot Integration
Audit Log Time Filter
Elasticsearch Support
Improved UX with Row level
'mouse-hover' actions
Description
With the enhanced Work-Load APIs provided in AAE
11.3, a user can orchestrate an RPA system to link
Chat-Bots to Automation Anywhere Enterprise’s
Task Bots. Data can be sent from Chat-Bots so as to
populate a Work-Load queue, which the Task Bots
will process at regular customizable intervals; and the
resulting output of the Task Bot can be sent over to
the Chat-Bot for real-time consumption and display to
the end-user.
This ensures that the end-users (who are chatting)
get a real-time view and progress over their servicing
requirements; thus, enabling fastest SLA adherence
Control Room users can refine the Audit Log records
using a pre-built time-based filter. Users can see the
Audit Log records for a pre-set time duration e.g.
last day/week/month/quarter. Users can also use
a custom search criterion to find Audit Log records
between any two given date and time ranges. Users
can combine time filter with the table level filters
available at the Audit Log page. For any given time-
filter, count of records is also displayed.
11.3 Control Room uses Elasticsearch to store and
retrieve Audit Log data. This enables users to quickly
search desired Audit Log records across all table
columns, perform free text search, use wild cards,
include and exclude search phrases etc. Elasticsearch
fetches results very fast despite Audit Log containing
millions of the records. User can also configure
the back up of Elasticsearch data on the Disaster
Recovery (DR) environment.
Users have more flexibility now, in their interaction
with individual items of Control Room tables. Users
can now configure to keep the row level actions static
or floating (display on mouse hover), in Control Room
tables. If the actions are kept static, users can further
choose to have those actions displayed on the left-
hand side or right-hand side of table
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•
Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client 11.3.1 is a point release with support for following new
and enhanced Client capabilities in addition to 11.3 features.
Client Features Description

Dynamic URI • The REST Webservice command has been enhanced to

support in REST Web provide user-defined variable within the URI of REST-based
Service command web service.
(Zendesk # 54164, • Users can now easily move their bots running REST
62588, 63479, 64128, command from Test to Production by using dynamic
67948, 68070, 71450, hostname, port, or endpoints in URI.
73039, 74075, 75548,
81758, 83588, 83887,
84896, 88880, 93476,
93711, 97808, 100512,
103203, 104576, 104894,
107140
Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client now provides a built-
Support for
in interface to connect to Bot Store. Any user registered with
downloading pre-
Bot Store can now login to Bot Store from within Automation
configured Bots from
Anywhere Enterprise Client and download the pre-configured
Bot Store
bots from the Bot Store. This feature provides a seamless
experience to the Bot Creators making Bot development faster
and easy.

Support for • The Email Automation – Get All Messages command has
option to overwrite been enhanced by providing an option to overwrite files with
attachment in Email same name in the folder where the email attachment needs to
Automation command be saved.
(Zendesk #82257, 84110) • Unselecting this option allows the user to save the attachment
with same name suffixed with a numeric value if an
attachment with same name already exists in the selected
folder.

The Error Handling – Log to file command has been enhanced

Encoding support
to allow user to select the encoding type – ANSI, UNICODE or
for Error Handling in
UTF-8, for the log file. Prior to 11.3.1, only ANSI encoding type
Log to File command
was supported.
(Zendesk #75406)
The FTP command is enhanced to support user-defined variable
Support for
in the Port field. Users can now automate connecting to FTP
dynamic Port in FTP
servers with different Port number.
command (Zendesk
#63377,92038)
The uninstall and reinstall options are now available for the Java
Support for
plugin both from the Client interface and from the command line.
Uninstallation and
The uninstall and reinstall options allows the user to fix any issue
reinstallation of Java
with the plugin installation.
Plugin (Zendesk #87947)

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Client Features Description

Support for • AAE Client's Main interface and Task Editor are now
1024x768 screen responsive to 1024x768 screen resolution. On the Main
resolution (Zendesk interface, the Properties tab shows a scroll bar to easily
#36871,51741,60412) navigate to the controls.
• Similarly, in the Task Editor, toolbar with action buttons are
displayed as icons with a tooltip

Support for TLS 1.2 With Automation Anywhere Enterprise ClientVersion 11.3, users
and SSL connection can automate Mainframe terminals that operate only over SSL
for Terminal Emulator or TLS 1.2 Connection. 11.3 Terminal Emulator command also
(Zendesk #72468, 75968, bring in Advanced Technology for terminal connection so as to
77578, 79052, 82382, support Japanese code-pages.
84628, 86684, 88362,
92034, 97962, 101094)
Chrome 'Record Multi-user ‘Record and play’ of applications over Chrome is now
and play' support possible with Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version
for multiple-users 11.3. This enables the users connected with the same Terminal
on Terminal Server Server to record applications over their instance of Chrome
(Zendesk #53067, 77888, concurrently. This also enables a user to deploy a ‘Chrome
79720, 96238, 103135) Application Automation’ bot from the Control Room over to Bot
Runners sharing the same Terminal Server.
Enhanced extensibility Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client now enables users to
using Abbyy OCR better configure image processing by Abbyy OCR engine. Abbyy
uses same set of default parameters to extract images from
screens of different applications. Different application images
may need different parameters to deliver optimal OCR results.
User is allowed to change default value of any of the parameters
used and supported by Abbyy such as enable/disable table
detection, configure resolution mode, etc. This enhancement is
available at all the places where OCR support is available viz.
OCR command, Meta Bot custom objects, and AISense.
Azure, Horizon VDI Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3 has been
and Citrix XenApp extensively tested on Azure Infrastructure, VMWare Horizon
Certification (Zendesk # VDIs and Citrix XenApp has been provided with Automation
52223,54421) Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3. The reports will include
installation, deployment and finer points for Cloud-based RPA.

•
Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.3.1 is a full production release with support for following
new and enhanced Bot Insight capabilities in addition to 11.3 features.

Bot Insight Features Description

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Oracle support for Bot Insight
database (Zendesk #75665,100225)
SQL Server support for Bot Insight
metadata repository
Bad data deletion utility via API
Centre of Excellence (CoE) dashboard
Elasticsearch Adhoc Analysis
Timestamp Data Formats
• The Bot Insight Database can now be
stored in Oracle.
• Bot Insight 11.3.1 supports Oracle version
12.1.x
• Earlier versions supported SQL Server
however with the support for Oracle in this
release, users can now select either SQL
Server or Oracle to store their Bot Insight
database during the Custom installation.
• For Express installation, the Bot Insight
database will be created in SQL Server by
default.
• The Bot Insight metadata repository can
now be stored in SQL Server.
• Earlier versions supported PostgreSQL.
With the support for SQL Server in this
release, users can now select either
SQL Server or PostgreSQL to store their
metadata repository during the Custom
installation.
• For Express installation, the Bot Insight
metadata database will be created in SQL
Server by default.
• This utility allows the user to search for
data rows based on datatype mismatch
via an API and mark them as bad data
(soft delete).
• The bad data rows cause Bot Insight
dashboards to not load correctly and
hence user can either search and mark
those rows as bad or correct these
rows so that there is no impact on the
dashboards.
CoE Dashboard is now available with
customizable metadata columns and
additional business information to provide
real-time ROI information.
Audit Trail dashboard enables easy search
and is similar to a search engine like Google
Search. Allows for easy adhoc analysis and
drill-down using text search.
Enhanced support for seven new timestamp
formats in input data. With this release a
smarter engine is available requiring less
work at Bot Creator end to pre-format the
information.
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Look and Feel Look and feel improvements have been made
for the user interface to match the Automation
Anywhere Enterprise version 11 Control
Room interface.

Changed Features

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room Changed Features

•
In 11.3.1, the default HTTP port for Elasticsearch is 47599 and the port to bind
communication between cluster nodes is 47600.

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Changed Features

•
In the Send Email command, a new option 'Validate if attachment is missing' is now provided
which when selected validates the missing attachment when sending an email, and displays an error
if the attachment is missing.
• For customers upgrading from 10.x to 11.3.1, the Bots having Send Email command will not
require any change as the option 'Validate if attachment is missing' is not selected by default.
This means that the Send Email command will run successfully even if the attachments are
missing.
• For customers upgrading from 11.x to 11.3.1, the Bots having Send Email command may need to
be modified by selecting the option 'Validate if attachment is missing' for an error to be displayed
for missing attachment(s).

•
In the Email Automation command with Get All Messages option, you can now download
attachments where the filename has special characters ("\" or "/").
• When using the $Excel Cell Row$ variable in Set Cell or Go to Cell options of Excel command in
a loop, the $Excel Cell Row$ variable always returns the row number of last affected cell and does
not increment at every iteration of the command. This behavior is independent whether "Contains
Header" is checked or unchecked in the Open Spreadsheet option of the Excel command.

Note: Existing customers if using $Excel Cell Row$ variable for incrementing the row may have to
modify their bots by using a counter instead.

Fixed Features

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room Bug Fixes

Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

When workitems are added to the queue, the Control

107047, 110175,
Room pages are refreshed and work items in the queue are
110928, 115663, 120749,
deployed as intended.
124691
When the user inserts several work items and processes
110175, 115664
these work items, the status changes correctly from "Ready to
Run" to "Active" and then to "Completed".

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Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

Devices that have been previously added to a role and

110030
removed from the role, can now be assigned to a device pool.
After upgrading from Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.1.2
105256, 109182,
to 11.3 the user can authenticate to Control Room through AD
109470, 110962, 112391
in multi domain environment.
The counter "Task Completed Successfully" in the Control
46516
Room Dashboard now gets updated everytime a task is
executed succesfully.

95080 Control Room now uses a more strong and unpredictable

secret key to sign JSON Web Tokens (JWT) used for user's
session management.

When installing Control Room, the error message displayed

108323
on creating SQL database now does not show password used
for SQL authentication.
During Control Room configuration, after changing the
108286,108522,109877,115122,116006,117507
Elasticsearch config file to local, you can now login to the
Control Room.
In the Bot Lifecycle Management (BLM) module of the Control
110074, 110158,
Room, the "Export bots" can now export Taskbots having
110449, 110967, 112664,
sub-tasks that are used as dependency in multiple Taskbots
112816, 114525, 116381,
including other sub-tasks without an error.
116655, 116844, 116941,
117714, 122439, 123079,
124692
You can now delete a Bot Runner User from the Control
113463, 114239,
Room, or deallocate the Bot Runner license from the User,
116628, 119728, 120251,
if the User is not linked to any in-progress or scheduled
121512
automation, credential, locker, or device pool.
For the user of a Control Room configured with floating
88274, 99678
license, the Historical activity page now displays the device
name of all the previously as well as the currently logged in
devices correctly.
The device list of a Control Room configured with floating
108158, 112033,
license now shows a user as connected. The user is also
114910, 123499, 124929,
able to login from the Client after re-connecting to a Citrix VDI
126412
session.
Domain names now do not disappear intermittently from the
109182
domain list of Control Room login page that is configured for
Active Directory users.
A Control Room user can import bots/files having multilevel
110544, 117458
dependencies using Bot Lifecycle Management (BLM) feature.
Control Room users now do not get an "internal server error"
111856, 120007,
while importing bots that were exported in an earlier version of
123045
Control Room in the Bot Lifecycle Management (BLM) page.
82601, 82615 Authentication API prompts error “Access Denied” in HTTPS
Connection

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Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

96586, 97793, 101607 Task schedules disappear from Control Room

99491 Upon Control Room installation, the Licensing Service is
starting by default in local system account and thereby
impacts bot files (atmx files) migration
98940 Hibernate constraint error when migrating bots
98940 Even when ‘Overwrite’ option is selected for bot migration, it
gives an error “A bot with the same name
98556 During migration, the duration shows 00:00:00 in certain
scenarios
98279 In certain cases, the password is displayed in log files.
95079 The Control Room divulges information, such as the server’s
type in an error page
94287 Control Room does not show progress for queued tasks when
the first task fails
90879 Even if PostGreSQL is installed on a separate server, the
Control Room repair installation installs PostGre Service on
local server as well
93363 The Control Room installer fails to connect with SQL with
custom database port
81824, 91668, 93128 Passwords are stored in plain text post Control Room
Installation.

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Bug Fixes

Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

After migrating from Automation Anywhere Enterprise 10.x to

108215
11.x, a task executing any stored procedures after executing
a stored procedure with parameters, now runs successfully.
In a Task Bot containing nested loops with SQL query, the
95757, 115593
dataset obtained from SQL query in each loop is now updated
with respect to the current SQL query that is being executed.
In the Workbench, you can now paste text into the Find
65213
Text... textbox, which was copied after you have copied and
pasted an action.
In the MetaBot Designer you can now add screens and
60321
open the Meta Bot multiple times in the ASSETS and LOGIC
screens without encountering any errors.
When a task having Meta Bot DLL as a dependency is
81015, 55121
deployed from the Control Room, the task now identifies the
DLL dependency and executes successfully,
Smart Recorder now does not record unwanted actions when
58034, 66063
opening a PDF attachment from an email repeatedly, and
now saves the email attachment files in correct order as per
the recorded sequence.

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Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

The Object Cloning command now captures HTML controls

64264
correctly without offsetting the capture area from the original
position.

65235 In the Read From CSV/Text command, if a column value

contains arithmetic operator then while reading the column
value in a variable enclosed in double quotes, now returns a
correct value instead of performing an arithmetic operation.

When Prompt Assignment variable is used in the String

65956
Operation command, changing the variable type from "array"
to "value", now does not prompt for array values.
In PDF Integration command, users can extract values from
69031
Form Fields from all pages of the PDF file even when the
pages have been added dynamically.
When a task is triggered, $Trigger Value$ variable now
75736, 79969, 87126
returns a file name or window title even if the file name or
window tiltle contains any special characters like a comma.
In REST Web Service command the URI for Windows AD
86515, 90464, 103430
authentication now fetches the details correctly.
The task file does not open from its physical location
88874, 107512
(Application Path) using "Edit" or "Open With" option, or from
the command line.
When the Run Script command runs a VB script, it no longer
90961
gives any additional argument variable if there is no argument
in the command.
When the user downloads all the files from the server
90314, 98490
Repository with VCS enabled, no error is displayed and all the
files are downloaded as required.
In Java application, when the Object Cloning :: Get cell by
109012
Index from table option is used, the cell is now highlighted on
Bot execution.
In the Object Cloning command, the value of the HTML
92012
Name attribute is now displayed correctly in the Get Property
option.
In the XML command, when an user inserts or updates a new
92008, 95084
node as an empty node, the node produced is empty without
a new line character.
Users can now enable client side logs or make changes in
109147
Tools > Options without setting Auto Login credentials.
Auto Login in Logoff mode now works on a machine where
89173, 97794,
both Ctrl+Alt+Del and Legal Disclaimer are enabled.
105228,106440,
113332, 113788,116098,
117485,118883
Users can now copy 100+ variables from one task to another
93666
with "Overwrite existing variables" option Yes and Yes to All.

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Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

When a Task having Meta Bot Logic with Password type

112594
variable as input parameter is created in 10.5.x and later
migrated to 11.3.1, it can now run without the need of
replacing the Password type variable with Credential Vault
variable.
Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client service getting
113277, 114176,
stopped due to memory leaks resulting from a bot deployment
119804, 121538
is now resolved.
In the Workbench, when a variable is created using "Convert
65089
to Variable" option, it is now displayed in the "Variable
Manager" list.
In Excel-Set Cell command, if the cell value is set using
89922, 95364
"Specific Cell", for instance: ‘$Excel Cell(Scale,$Excel Cell
Row$)$’, then the $Excel Cell Row$ now increments the cell
row correctly when the next Set Cell command gets executed.
A user is able to login from the Client after re-connecting to a
108158, 112033,
Citrix VDI session.
114910, 123499, 124929,
126412
In Email Automation command, all email attachments are
91433, 102113,
saved when the option Get All Messages is selected.
109448, 111872
When creating a MetaBot Logic with dll, after selecting a
97931, 102879
credential variable as value, the user is now able to type or
paste the value in the subsequent logic command.
In REST Webservice command, the REST API call used to
104590
connect to CyberArk Vault now returns proper content in the
Response body.
In SOAP Webservice command, the Test Output now returns
102615, 114760
a proper XML response when testing some of the SOAP web
services.
95339, 99894, 100820, Intermittent errors while sending emails using the Send Mail
101826, 102024, 103266, Command.
103589
93225 Unzip command generate a folder with garbled name in
Japanese environment
89518 Microsoft Edge – AAE plugin is disabled when Edge starts.
90009,90014 Short-cut key shared between two features
83917, 86334, 98554, Terminal Emulator does not share session between the main
102710, 82052, 83917, and sub-tasks.
96857
62053 Cannot initialize values in more than 100 rows in Array
variable
95952 Terminal Emulator (TE) session now does not close when
Meta Bot-Run Logic is called. The TE session remains active
until the Disconnect command is called.

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Zendesk Ticket Numbers Description

104154 On enabling the organization's group policy, a system

administrator is now able to run the Automation Anywhere
Enterprise Client setup successfully.

Security fixes

Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room

Zendesk ticket numbers Description

Fixed the vulnerability CVE-2015-6420 that was identified with

109386
commons-collections4-4.0.jar file in the installer.

Deprecated Features

Not Applicable

Upgrade Considerations

• Upgrading Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client

Refer to the AAE 11.3.1 Client Installation Guide for steps to install Automation Anywhere Enterprise
Client.
Follow the below mentioned steps to install Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3.1, if
installing on an earlier major version (for example, to install AAE 11.3.1 on AAE 10.x):
1. Install the Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3.1 with the set-up file provided
2. The installer will automatically uninstall the old version and install the new version.
3. The Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3.1 will point to the same repository path;
thus, ensuring access to the Bots.

Follow the below mentioned steps to install Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client 11.3.1 , if installing
on an earlier minor version (for example, to install AAE 11.3.1 on AAE 11.2):
1. Uninstall the AAE 11.2 Client.
2. Install the AAE 11.3.1 Client with the set-up file provided.

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• Upgrading Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room

If you are installing Control Room for the first time, refer AAE 11.3.1 Control Room Installation Guide
for steps to install the Control Room.
If you are upgrading your existing version of Control Room, DO NOT remove the existing version.
Simply run the 11.3.1 Control Room set-up exe and point to the existing Control Room Database.
1. Before upgrading to 11.3.1 ensure that the workitems for all active automation tasks are processed.
Prior to upgrading verify that the number of pending workitems is 0 by going to Activity->In
progress ->View activity in the Control Room.

Tip:
If there are pending workitems in Work Load Management during upgrade then run following query
to troubleshoot this situation:
UPDATE WORKITEMS SET STATUS = ‘ERROR’ WHERE STATUS = ‘QUEUED’

2. To get an updated LDAP page, reset the Service User credentials that were expired or disabled. In
this case, the Control Room Login page will not show domains in the drop-down list.
• Stop Control Room Caching and Control Room Service on all the other nodes in the cluster
environment.
• Provide a Control Room admin user in the username field in the format <domain\user> and
<password>.
• An LDAP updated page will show up for new LDAP URLs and Service User credential.

Note: If the LDAP updated page does not display, clear the browser cache. Refer Known
Limitations.
• Re-enable the existing Service User and update the URLs.

Important: For customers who want to use updated LDAP URLs and Service User, ask your
Active Directory (AD) Administrator to expire or disable existing Service User after the Control
Room is installed.

• Migrating from Automation Anywhere Enterprise 10.x to 11.3.1

Control Room provides a built-in migration tool that allows existing customers to migrate their data
from earlier versions of Automation Anywhere Enterprise (viz. 10 SP2, 10 LTS) to Version 11.3.1. For
versions prior to 10 LTS (10.3), customers will have to undergo a two-step migration process – first
upgrading to 10 LTS and then to Version 11.3.1.

Attention: Data can be migrated only from one SQL database instance to another SQL
database instance for Control Room DB and from PostgreSQL instance to another PostgreSQL
instance for Bot Insight DB.
Migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Server for Control Room DB and PostgreSQL
Server to Microsoft SQL Server for Bot Insight DB is not supported in the current version.

For more details, refer article on Migration.

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Known Limitations

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room

•
If the Control Room is installed using Oracle database, then the "Repair" option in installer is
currently non-functional.
•
In the Control Room Settings page, the Control Room database section does not display the
database parameter details when the Control Room is installed with Oracle database.
•
When upgrading from previous 11.x version to 11.3 or later, in the 'Change Active Directory
Configuration' page if you enter an invalid URL, it will not be validated with LDAP server. If you
correct it by providing a valid URL, the same error message might be displayed. To resolve this,
refresh the page and reenter the correct URL(s).
•
The support for Oracle to store Control Room and Bot Insight database is applicable to fresh
installation with new database only.
•
Earlier Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.x versions can not be upgraded to Automation
Anywhere Enterprise 11.3.1 with Oracle as the database.
•
Migration from Automation Anywhere Enterprise 10.x versions to 11.3.1 with Oracle database
is NOT certified.. It will be supported in a future release.
•
The support for SQL Server to store Bot Insight metadata database is applicable to fresh
installation with new database only.
•
Earlier Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.x versions can not be upgraded to Automation
Anywhere Enterprise 11.3.1 with SQL Server as the metadata repository for Bot Insight. This will be
supported in an upcoming release.
• Installer does not support installing a Certificate Authority Certificate (trust anchor) unless a secure
database connection is selected. If you want to connect the Control Room to other services securely
via TLS, such as LDAPS and secure SMTP you must manually import your CA certificate into the
Control Room after the Windows installer but prior to completion of web-based configuration.
• When the Automation Anywhere Control Room Caching services is restarted, the Automation
Anywhere Control Room Service should also be restarted.
• When Automation Anywhere Control Room Services are restarted (Or) when Control Room is
installed for the first time, it will take time (~5 minutes) for the Control Room UI to be shown in the
browser.
• Packages exported via User Interface in Bot Lifecycle Management cannot be used by APIs (and
vice-versa).
• There could be instances of multiple audit entries (for create locker, create queue scenarios).
• It is critical that communication between the Control Room servers is sufficiently protected as it
contains security sensitive information that is not encrypted. All network hosts, apart from Control

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Room servers, should be blocked from accessing the cluster communication ports listed in the
Architecture and Implementation Guide.
• Filtering and Sorting is available on select few columns of Control Room tables and not on all
columns.
• The following time-zones are not supported when scheduling bots:
• EST
• GMT+0
• GMT-0
• HST
• MST
• ROC

• When installing Control Room on Windows Server 2016 Datacentre Edition, it may give an error
“The installation of Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 appears to have failed. Do you want to continue the
installation?”. Click Yes on this dialog to continue the Control Room installation.
• The Control Room dashboards may fail to load if ‘Use Secure Connection’ has been used on the
PostGre SQL step (of Control Room Installation) and the PostGre server is not configured for secure
connection.
• If Control Room is installed on multiple notes, and if one or more nodes are down, it may give an
error “Failed to connect to Elasticsearch server”. The user has to wait for approximately 20-30
seconds to login into Control Room.
• If Control Rooms are installed on multiple nodes, and if cluster IPs are null, you may get duplicate
audit entries “Elasticsearch backup cluster IPs are null”.
• If there are million+ records in the audit trail, and if you have a filter; then it may take time to navigate
to the last page.
• To search the exact phrase in audit trail, enclose that within double quotes e.g. "Mike-Finance-564"
• If Automation Anywhere Enterprise is taking up a backup of Elasticsearch for Control Rooms with
cluster IP, the audit trial may display ‘N/A’ in Action type and View details.
• When configuring PostGre Database (while installating Control Room), there should not be a space
in the PostGre Database name
• If you were previously using 11.x and now upgrading to 11.3, you need to perform clear cache
operation in your browser before going live with 11.3 Control Room.
• It may take upto three minutes for an audit entry to reflect for failed deployment of a task.
• On the “In progress activity” page, the "Unknown" status may take some time to reflect while the
associated device is disconnected and the Player is running.

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client

•
For the Bot Store home page to be displayed in Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client,
JavaScript must be enabled in the Internet Explorer browser settings.
•
If you minimize the Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client window then the Profile menu
in the Bot Store home page may not display all the menu options. The Automation Anywhere
Enterprise Client window must be restored to maximum so that the Profile menu displays all the
menu options.
• While uninstalling Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client, the user might come across a ‘File in
Use’ page that displays process ID numbers instead of showing the open Automation Anywhere
applications.
• In certain operating systems having stringent security policies, while uninstalling Automation
Anywhere Enterprise 11 LTS Client, the “Automation.CredentialProvider.dll” (in the System32 folder)
does not get removed by the uninstaller. In such cases, the dll must be manually deleted or by using
a batch script.
• If the Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client Version 11.3 remains offline (disconnected from
the Control Room) for more than eight hours; the user must re-login to the Automation Anywhere

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Enterprise Client Version 11.3 to renew the user session. This is in line with Industry Standard
policies on token expiry.
• Flex and Silverlight Automation is not supported in Windows 10 and Meta Bots.
• In certain scenarios, the Java plugin installation state may not be correctly reflected, even when
Java plugin is installed.
• Autologin in logoff case for Windows Server 2016 is inconsistent. We recommend use of ‘Run Bot
Runner session on Control Room’ (RDP based deployment).
• Object cloning is not supported for Oracle Forms.
• Firefox browser is not supported in Meta Bots.
• For Meta Bots recording, to record any web application, the application must be opened in Internet
Explorer 8 and above in document mode.
• Microsoft Edge automation is not supported in Meta Bots.
• When 10.x and 11.x Automation Anywhere Enterprise Clients are installed on the same machine,
the ‘Advanced Technology’ option of Terminal Emulator will not work and its corresponding DLL will
not be removed from the machine when Automation Anywhere Enterprise is uninstalled.
• If you want to trigger a Bot when Office files (for example, docx, xlsm, etc.) are modified, use the
‘When file is renamed’ option of trigger. This is an inherent behavior of Microsoft Office.
• The ‘Advanced Technology’ option of Terminal Emulator command will not support insecure Cipher
Suites for SSL Connection, e.g. TLS_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA (0x09).
Some of the more common SSL ciphers supported:
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0xc00a)
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0xc009)
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0xc014)
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0xc013)
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x0035) TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0x002f)
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (0x000a)

• Bot Insight
•
The support for SQL Server to store Bot Insight metadata database is applicable to fresh
installation with new database only. For existing customers upgrading to 11.3.1, the metadata
database migration from PostgreSQL to SQL Server is currently not supported.
• After migration from Automation Anywhere Enterprise 10 LTS to Automation Anywhere Enterprise
11.3, dashboards that were marked as bookmarks do not show up in the bookmarks section of Bot
Insight. Users will need to bookmark their favourite dashboards manually.
• Sometimes the KPI widget does not show data specifically in the Internet Explorer browser. To make
this work, go to Internet options > Advanced tab and click on Reset Internet Explorer settings.

Version Compatibility Matrix

Before you install or upgrade you must be aware of the compatible versions of Automation Anywhere
Control Room and Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client.

Note:
• Task Bots created in earlier releases are compatible with this release.
• Task Bots and Meta Bots created/saved in this release shall not work if the product is downgraded to
earlier versions. For example: Task Bots created in the Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.3 shall
not work in Automation Anywhere Enterprise 10 LTS. This is because 11.x version uses enhanced
obfuscation algorithm, as compared to 10.x.

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• MetaBots created in earlier versions are compatible with this version.

Control Room – Client Compatibility Matrix

Client Control Room Version

Version
10.0 10.0.x 10.1.0 10.2.0 10.2.1 10.3.x 10 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.3.1
SP2

10.0.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y* Y* N N N N N
10.0.x Y Y Y Y Y Y* Y* N N N N N
10.1.0 N N Y Y Y Y* Y* N N N N N
10.2.0 N N N Y Y Y* Y* N N N N N
10.2.1 N N N Y Y Y* Y* N N N N N
10.3.x N N N N N Y** Y N N N N N
10 SP2 N N N N N N Y N N N N N
11.0 N N N N N N N Y Y Y Y Y
11.1 N N N N N N N N Y Y Y Y
11.2 N N N N N N N N N Y Y Y
11.3 N N N N N N N N N N Y Y
11.3.1 N N N N N N N N N N Y Y

Note: “N" indicates not compatible, and “Y” indicates compatible version.

Y* - From version 10.3 (i.e. 10 LTS) onwards, Meta Bots are stored as Single File Format, as opposed to
the old folder based structure. Therefore, Meta Bots created in earlier versions cannot be directly used
with the 10.3.0 Control Room. They must be converted to Single File Format first and then used in 10.3.0
version.
Y** - The Control Room version must be equal or higher than the Client version.

Products Compatibility Matrix for Upgrade

Following matrix shows products compatibility of Control Room, Bot Insight, IQ Bot, and Bot Farm versions
for upgrading to Control Room Version 11.3.

Control Room Upgrade Bot Insight Upgrade to IQBot Upgrade to BotFarm Upgrade
Version to 11.3 Version 11.3 Version 11.3 Version to 11.3

8.x, 9.x N - - - - - -
10.0.x -10.2.x N - - - - 1.2 -
10.3.x Y 1.5.2 Y - - 1.3 -
10.5.x Y 2.1 Y 5.x - 1.4 -

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Control Room Upgrade Bot Insight Upgrade to IQBot Upgrade to BotFarm Upgrade
Version to 11.3 Version 11.3 Version 11.3 Version to 11.3

11.0.0 N 11.0.0 N - - 2.0 -

11.1.x Y - - - - - -

Note: “-“ indicates not available, “N" indicates not supported, and “Y” indicates supported version.

Version Comparison Matrix

The version comparison matrix provides a list of new features introduced in this release with regard to
features available in version 10.x.

Control Room Version 10 Version 11

Type Web Web

Hosting Technology
Data Storage
User Interface
Dashboard
Centralized Bot Deployment
Roles and permissions
Role based access control
Centralized licensing
Centralized Scheduling
Credential Vault
Operations Room
Audit
Mode of Authentication
Data Migration
API based deployment
Load Balancing
High Availability mode
Version Control Integration
Multi Domain Support
Email notifications
Customizable help links
IIS Java
SQL Database SQL Database
Standard Web UI Rich and responsive UI
Controls
Basic Graphical, drilldown UI
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Basic Advanced with Repeat option
Standard Advanced with RBAC, Lockers
Standard Detailed
Basic Detailed with changes
AD, non-AD SSO, AD (with Kerberos), non-
AD
Desktop Utility Web-based tool
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y

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Control Room
Bot Runner Session on Control
room
Bot Deployment API
Workload Management
Bot Lifecycle Management
Bot Runner health check
Bot Login Credentials API
Configurable Password Policy
Support for SQL 2016
Create/Rename Folders in
Control Room
Credential Vault API’s
Data Migration API’s
Bot Insight
Installer
High Availability
Multi-Domain Support
Double byte data visualizations
Fluid Visualization Engine
Denser Dashboards
Better data caching
AAE Client
(Bot Creator / Bot Runner)
Number of Commands
Ease of Use (drag and drop)
Recorders
MetaBot
IQBot
Online help
Packaging bot dependencies
Multi User support (Citrix/
Terminal server)
Secure Recording
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Version 10 Version 11
Y Y
Y Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
Version 2.1 Version 11
Separate Installer Integrated Installer
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
Version 10 Version 11
480+ 480+
Y Y
Smart Recorder, Web Recorder, Smart Recorder, Web
Screen Recorder Recorder, Screen Recorder
Y Y
Y (Basic training) Y (Centralized platform)
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
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AAE Client
(Bot Creator / Bot Runner)
Integrated OCR engine
Bot Obfuscation
Dynamic Java Automation
AISense
Integrated Workbench
Quick command replication
Support for Windows 10
Support for Edge browser
Command-line Login to Client
Disaster Recovery of Bot
Runners
Support for Windows Server
2016
Microsoft logo certification
Support for Japanese language -
Folder support for MetaBots
Resolution independent IR
Auto mode in OCR
Note: “-“ indicates not available and “Y” indicates available feature.
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Y Y
Basic 3DES AES-256 algorithm
Y Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
Y
- Y
- Y
- Y
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Index
F
feature comparison 19, 21

P
products compatibility 19

R
release notes 19, 21

V
version comparison 21
version compatibility 19

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