Execute Robot Agents in Air-Gapped Environments

If you have a secure VM setup in an air-gapped environment with no internet access (offline environment) and want to execute robot agents without internet access, you can export the robots and their dependencies from an online source environment as a ZIP file. You can then import this ZIP file into an offline target environment and execute robot agents without internet access.

The process ensures that all robots and their dependencies are available in offline mode without internet access by running the scripts which are available in the scripts and offline_scripts folder of the robot agent ZIP file.

Online source environment is the reference environment with full internet access, where at least one robot has been executed successfully in the desired browser and the export script needs to be executed to generate the exportable ZIP file.
Offline target environment is the air-gapped environment with no internet access or restricted internet access, which is identical to the online source environment in Operating System, CPU architecture, user, other system parameters and where the ZIP file exported from the online source environment should be imported to replicate the robot's virtual execution environment.
Note:
- You can set up your own offline target environment or you can use the operating system image available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. For more information, see Set Up the Robot Agent Offline Target Environment Using the Oracle Cloud Marketplace Image.
- Oracle recommends refreshing your offline environments for every release. This can be done by getting the latest robot agent jar file from the online source environment and following the steps outlined in Export the Robot Agent and Dependencies from the Online Source Environment and Import the ZIP File to the Offline Target Environment.

The following image illustrates the steps executed by the rpaAgentEnvDiagnosis, rcc_offline_export_all, and rcc_offline_import_all scripts described in the following sections. Steps to export the robots and their dependencies from an online source environment as a ZIP file. You can then import the ZIP file into an offline target environment and execute robot agents without internet access.