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Process Discovery Groups

Kofax RPA Process Discovery helps you gather the data necessary to monitor user activity and process bottlenecks. See Kofax RPA Process Discovery in the Kofax RPA Administrator's Guide for more information.

Groups specified in this window logically combine computers with installed Process Discovery agents, such as finacial_dept, hr_dept, sales_dept, or others. When you deploy Process Discovery agents, specify a name of the group created here.

To create a new group, click Process Discovery Groups in the left pane and then click Add Process Discovery Group in the Process Discovery Groups pane.

Note When using Docker for deploying Process Discovery, you can use the default settings in Agent and Analytics database settings.

Property

Description

Mode

Specify recording mode.

  • Recording Disabled: Actions are not recorded

  • Record All Applications, except ignored list: Records actions in all applications except those listed in the Ignored applications field

  • Record only applications in the record list: Records actions in applications listed in Recorded applications

Agent database settings

Specify the new database parameters for agents to access and store data.

Important We recommend using the same Host, Port, and Schema settings for all groups in your environment to view and filter data by groups in the Process Analytics dashboard.

  • Host: Database server name or IP address. If you use Docker tools to deploy Process Discovery, this is the computer where Process Discovery runs in a Docker container.

  • Port: Port number to access the host.

  • Schema: Name of schema.

  • Database type: Specifies the type of database. This parameter cannot be changed.

  • Admin name: Database administrator name. (Default: root)

  • Admin password: Database administrator password. Specify a password for the administrator account to secure it.1

  • User name: Account name to access the database by the agents in this group.

  • Password: Account password to access the database by the agents in this group.

Analytics database settings

Specify parameters for the Analytics database. Process Discovery Analyzer processes raw data from the Agent database and stores refined data in this database to create reports in Kofax Insight.

  • Host: Database server name or IP address. If you use Docker tools to deploy Process Discovery, this is the computer where Process Discovery runs in a Docker container.

  • Port: Port number to access the host.

  • Schema: Name of schema.

  • Admin name: Database administrator name.

  • Admin password: Database administrator password. Specify a password for the administrator account to secure it.

  • User name: Account name to access the database by the Analyzer.

  • Password: Account password to access the database by the Analyzer.

Applications lists

Specify application identifiers (usually the name of the executable file, such as calc.exe) that the agent either records actions from, or ignores. The identifiers must be listed in a comma-separated form, such as calc.exe,notepad.exe.

  • Utility applications: Lists applications that are always ignored. You can leave this parameter unchanged.

  • Ignored applications: Specify applications that are ignored when collecting data. This list is used if you select the All except ignored agent recording mode.

  • Recorded applications: Specify applications for which usage data is recorded. This list is used if you select the Specified applications agent recording mode.

Agent advanced settings

Specify settings for agents in this group.

  • Max Children Count: The maximum number of children nodes of a node for agents to process.

  • Auto Start Recording: If selected, agents in this group automatically start recording.

  • Db Connection Timeout Seconds: Database operations timeout setting for agents.

  • Keystroke: Records user keyboard input. This option is off by default.

    Important Selecting this option may increase the accuracy of the reports, but because keyboard input may contain sensitive information, such as names, passwords, personal data, credit card numbers and so on, the collection of such data may fall under data protection regulations and you must treat the collected data appropriately.

Analytics advanced settings

Specify settings for recorded data in this group.

  • Min Event Count For Application: A number of actions in an application for an agent to ignore. If a person performs more actions than the specified number, the agent records the user activity in the application.

  • Interval Between Sessions Seconds: A time in seconds between the end of one session and the beginning a new one. If an agent does not receive any action during the specified time, the session is marked as complete. A new session is opened the next time the agent records a user action.

Tweaks

Do not alter the settings in this group without consulting with Kofax support.

1 Admin name and Admin password are required to create the agent database and an account for the agent to access the database. Agent account name and password are specified in the User name and Password fields.