automated_deployment_engine
Automated Deployment Engine

Deploy Windows or Linux robots from a remote system using MSI or RPM packages.
Revision history
Date Description State Version
04.04.2024

Released with DX UIM 23.4 CU1.

Fixed Defects:

  • Resolved an issue where upgrading to version 23.4 failed due to the absence of the info.pkg file in custom packages in the archive.
SHA-256 Checksum: 78eab3debdfda990006f5dc27a563e6275929b8bf599725b4ac51a0592b5a582
GA 23.4.1
05.07.2023

Released with DX UIM 20.4 CU8.

SHA-256 Checksum: 86ed334469613ab596fc8bb559f1ec8fdeaa0d325e58bcc629ad81841bcf9046
20.47
02.05.2023
  • Released with DX UIM 20.4 CU7.
SHA-256 Checksum: f75edbc73b035dd3d5811b39a2665c9e735a09a4968ed98f6d2098e119a673f7
20.46
13.02.2023
  • Released with DX UIM 20.4 CU6.
SHA-256 Checksum: 9a2a7ce60d5f58bd5973433aa326af21115d3440520171321c74a554bc0f4545
20.45
29.04.2022

What's New:

  • Automated_deployment_engine is modified to honor the probe deployment order mentioned in the info.pkg file.
  • Addressed vulnerabilities related to its internal log4j and h2database libraries.

       Note: Automated_deployment_engine probe can be deployed only using the distsrv probe. Deployment from the Admin console is not supported .

SHA-256 Checksum: 7b2739b2312a052627bea960006ab97e2c37b1cdc4604b704fd74c43f16b5967
20.43
27.12.2021 The release includes log4j library version 2.17.0.

MD5 Checksum: a5c03316fe18ecd1df15664b33449f8b
SHA-1 Checksum: 348e1a8a28638b0fcee96d712dded53cb271a214

Note: If you want to deploy the 20.41 or 20.42 version of the automated_deployment_engine probe, you may need to use distsrv (IMGUI) for its deployment instead of using automated_deployment_engine itself (adminconsoleapp)
20.42
23.03.2021

(Released as part of UIM 20.3.3.)

  • UIM 20.3.3 now introduces the asynchronous behavior for probe distribution mechanism, which ensures more robust and resilient deployments. This ability also helps you avoid intermittent timeout or communication issues with larger probes. Previously, while deploying the large packages, distsrv and ADE were facing time-out issues, which was causing unsuccessful deployment of such packages.
    This functionality supports backward compatibility. For example, if you have an older robot, then the deployment happens based on the earlier (synchronous) behavior.
MD5 Checksum: 3afe6ab217a7983bb5459cadba31c9b0
SHA-1 Checksum: c6f5802926c4d96e122886a5f8fffe88b8a9a7df
20.31
12.10.2020
  • Released with UIM 20.3.
MD5 Checksum: 2e04748facc4cb82d4712600619dbed6
SHA-1 Checksum: c35f9b20ab9eb7af53a31827268b58430980c81b
20.30
26.03.2020
  • Released with UIM 20.1.
MD5 Checksum: 6923705696b0b413aed11e74365051e4
SHA-1 Checksum: ca1636ad0f7d5529e495b189643ae23b7cdd6b39
20.10
14.08.2019

What’s New:

  • Provided support for OpenJDK 8u212.
  • (9.02 HF1) Fixed an issue in which when users were trying to deploy robots with XML file by using a sudo account along with the sshport property, they were getting an error. The error was stating that communication with the host was not possible with the specified sshport. (Support Case: 01344939)
  • (8.54 HF6) Fixed an issue in which automated_deployment_engine was not deploying robots in mixed-mode authentication. The automated_deployment_engine probe uses Java Secure Channel (JSch), which is a third-party library. During run-time, in mixed-mode authentication, JSch was using password authentication implementation (with password as an empty string) instead of the key-based authentication password. This was causing the authentication failure errors. With this hotfix, the key is now successfully authenticating with the Linux server in the mixed-mode authentication. (Support Case: 01169113)
  • Fixed an issue in which users were facing issues when they were deploying CentOS robots through automated_deployment_engine from a remote hub. They were trying to deploy the robots by using an API call to automated_deployment_engine. (Support Case: 01281291)
  • Fixed an issue in which robot deployments were failing when using the deployment_engine API for sudo access. (Support Case: 01135459)
  • Updated the probe as part of addressing the common vulnerabilities and exposures by updating the jackson-databind libraries. For more information and CVE numbers, see Addressing Jackson Vulnerabilities.

Note: Support cases may not be viewable to all.

MD5 Checksum: 781a307b8124281f13aa2786537575f7
SHA-1 Checksum: 1517ed4c6fe1f8af78894bf6bedf4df373f2ccbd
9.20
02.03.2017 Released with UIM 8.5.1

md5sum: 9f6422603ccd4c423dae622b9df09fdc
sha1sum: 5ab186cce6fafcea44c6c7eae57d199883d746ee
8.51
27.09.2016 Released with 8.47

md5sum: 88e467aaca96d9bf6b055d17427cd381
sha1sum: fb6333223e735031cfa0a0e354348c9b61b4b36f
8.47
10.02.2016 Released with 8.40

md5sum: 41d40dd9d3deef8f961e123d59710bb9
sha1sum: e529313347c05cfcd4bbe4724359a9856e36c5f5
8.40
12.08.2015 Released with 8.31

md5sum: 2d88b8eb569325a6f93236fa89a0caf7
sha1sum: ba84e1b25259485f66939315b4270d5003121b17
8.31
30.03.2015 Released with UIM version 8.2

md5sum: a0cb152247e34e6385909c379f015328
sha1sum: 35188ee2d84e985596d58583859fa443affaad12
8.20
30.12.2014 - ADE remote robot deployment reliability has been improved for slow networks.
- ADE probe package dependency resolution has been fixed when using EQ as the dependency type.
- Solaris native installer init script now returns correct error code when being called.
- ADE probe will now restart properly when called from IM and AC

md5sum: bed863ab76e7087c256aea9f73313899
sha1sum: ba3c13b787c12eae32544a62d8cf2334e7600d3a
8.10
29.09.2014
  • Packaged with 8.0

Md5sum: 8892a88b41fa04882275455b21534268
sha1sum: 3510791b70357c002e50f2edcda9af1a9986bff0
Unsupported 2.00
20.06.2014

Package that is included in the NMS 7.60 distribution.

  • Added support for AIX and zLinux
md5sum: 29f607641589138e7c0acaeeba19fd27
sha1sum: 3c2bb3660784cb0deb47054799526f291e0ebaa7
1.31
31.03.2014

Package that is included in the NMS 7.50 distribution.

  • Behind-the-scenes performance has been improved.
  • MD5 checksum: 985b3eeb70752ebe37ca0b3d2dfcd75f
  • SHA-1 checksum: f605c3651b9691409ab99ea4641138729d9816ef
  • 1.30
    20.12.2013
  • Archive package for the Nimsoft Monitor 7.10 release.
  • MD5 checksum: 34c3dcf602c4fec99bc3bd3a159dee91
  • SHA-1 checksum: 3887cbb1005bfd2709f8b6e39b288b8f9fe6922a
  • 1.24
    02.10.2013
  • Fixed bug where tempdir not being properly created for Linux and Solaris hosts
  • Fixed bug where custom tempdir was not being set
  • Fixed bug where ADE was deploying the wrong ADE version for remote hubs
  • MD5 Signature: 991567b9630438cb32f9f46a314f4c6e
  • 1.23
    29.05.2013
    • Added support for robot_exe.zip package which adds support for Windows 2012 and Windows 8
    • Added minor logging improvements to show a countdown of the hosts being deployed to
    • Fixed minor logging overflow bugs
    • Removed support for robot_msi.zip package
    • MD5 Signature: 7418b90b6b9ed706bebcb19c618c6213
    1.22
    01.04.2013 Added support for new RPM robot installer released in NMS 6.50. 1.21
    19.12.2012
    1. Ubuntu, Debian, Solaris Support
    2. Full support for windows credentials as used by discovery
    3. Support for windows 2008 from other windows machines
    4. Support for sudo users on Linux machines
    1.20
    30.09.2012 Can now distribute infrastructure across tunnels, provides status on distribution jobs and compatibility with discovery has been improved.
    Also introduced interactivity with USM.
    1.10
    10.07.2012 ADE GUI now allows upper case and numeric characters in Windows domains. 1.01
    05.07.2012 Initial release. 1.00
    Requirements
    Platform: Windows, Linux (glibc >=2.3)
    Software: x86, x86_64, robot_msi_rpm
    Hardware: Windows 2003, Windows 2008, RedHat 5.x, RedHat 6.x, SLES 11, SLES 12