Group settings

Specify general group parameters.

• Group name: Specify a new or edit the existing group name.

• Record: Enables action recording for this group.

• Analyze: Enables action analysis for this group.

Recording settings

Application ignore list: This is a comma-separated case-insensitive list of process names of the programs that Process Discovery ignores when recording and processing data. A program process name can be viewed in the Windows Task Manager. As ignored programs you can specify messengers that usually are not part of the work process. Specify this list to increase the Agent and Analyzer performance and reliability of discovered processes by removing extra "noise" from data.

Agent database settings

Specify database parameters for Agents to access and store data.

• Address: Database server name or IP address.

• Port: Specify the port to access the database.

• Schema: Name of schema.

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

• 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.

• Test button: Checks the connection to the database.

Agent database provisioning

Enter credentials to create the database schema and grant access to the user specified in Database settings. These options are available in the existing group.

• Database administrator name: Specify the name of the administrator account to access the database.

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

• Create schema button: Creates the schema in the database using the specified credentials. If the schema exists, you are prompted to overwrite the existing schema or cancel.

• Grant user access button: Grants necessary database access rights to the user specified in Database settings. If the user exists, you are prompted to recreate the existing user or cancel. If you recreate the user, the previous user access rights and other user settings are lost.

Analysis settings

Specify Analyzer run settings for this group. See the "Analysis settings explained" section below for more information.

• Min count of process instances: Set the minimum number of similar sequences of user actions to form a process.

• Min action count in process instance: Set the minimum number of user actions in process instances to discover.

• Max count of sequential noise actions in process instance: Set the maximum number of consecutive user actions unrelated to a process instance.

• Max inactivity interval in process instance (minutes): Set a maximum user inactivity period in discovered process instances.

• Max application count in process instance: Set a maximum number of different applications in a process instance.

• Blur screenshots: If this option is selected, Analyzer makes the text on screen shots unrecognizable for the Insight dashboard views. The screen shots in the Agent database remain intact. We strongly recommend selecting this option if the screen shots can contain sensitive data, such as personal information, passwords, credit cards numbers, and so on.

Advanced recording settings

Specify advanced recording settings for this group.

• Non-UIA applications: Enter a comma-separated list of process names of the programs for which Process Discovery uses ISA (Intelligent Screen Automation) instead of UI Automation API. By default, the field contains names of some communication programs, Java programs, all browsers except Chrome, and others that show more reliable results when using ISA. Because Kofax RPA implements native UI automation support for the Chrome browser, we recommend using Chrome as the default browser in your environment.

• Agent SQLite DB max size (MB): Set the maximum size of the data stored locally on the computer where an Agent is running. The Agent stores collected information locally if connection to the database cannot be established. If the stored data exceeds the limit, the Agent starts overwriting the oldest data. The default setting provides storage for two to three days of data collection. Increase the size limit if you often experience long network outage.

• Min UIA tree immutability duration (ms): This is a time the Agent waits before recording a program tree after the tree stopped changing. The lower the timeout, the faster the Agent records the tree and the better results you can get. If programs on the user computers become slow in response, increase this number. Do not change the default setting without thorough consideration.

Advanced analysis settings

Specify advanced Analysis output settings for this group. Do not alter the default values of the following settings without thorough consideration.

• Max compute score distance (0-100): Sets the proximity score for comparing user actions based on the number of actions in groups.

• Min action block score (0-100): Provides a resemblance score threshold for combining adjacent action blocks. Decreasing the number makes Analyzer more tolerant and combine more blocks. Increasing the number makes Analyzer more precise in combining action blocks.

• Min strong pair score (0-100): Sets user action resemblance score to combine actions into pairs while detecting processes. If you decrease the value, you can get more discovered processes with more false detections and vice versa.

• Max distance between process instances (0-100): Sets the minimum resemblance score of the detected process instances to combine them to clusters. The lesser the specified number, the more processes are considered similar and combined, but you can get more unalike processes combined in clusters. If you increase the value, more clusters are created with less process instances in them.

• Actions in blocks for comparison: Sets the maximum number of user actions in blocks used for comparing and combining those blocks. If you decrease the value, Analyzer becomes more tolerant to "noise" actions and detects more processes, but you get shorter processes and might miss some longer ones. If you increase the number, Analyzer may start combining more blocks with unalike actions.

• Max ISA X position difference (px): Sets the maximum element offset in pixels on the x-axis until marking it as a different element when detecting similar actions. This setting is applied to processes detected using ISA technology. If you increase this value, more actions are considered similar, which may lead to more false process detections and vice versa.

• Max ISA Y position difference (px): Sets the maximum element offset in pixels on the y-axis until marking it as a different element when detecting similar events. This setting is applied to processes detected using ISA technology. If you increase this value, more actions are considered similar, which may lead to more false process detections and vice versa.