Understand the Rules for Environments and Environment Pools

Environments are the computers or virtual machines (VMs) where robots run. Environment pools are collections of these computers. Understand the rules for setting up environments and associating robots with them.

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Installing the robot agent on a computer or virtual machine creates an environment	A computer or VM becomes an environment when you install the robot agent on the computer or VM. Complete the following tasks: Meet the Robot Agent's Requirements Every environment in an environment pool should contain everything that a robot needs, such as the correct internet browser. Download the Robot Agent Update the Robot Agent's Configuration File Start the Robot Agent After a computer becomes an environment, you can add the environment to an environment pool.
Robots in different projects can run on the same environment pool	A robot in any project can run on an environment pool that you created in any project. All you need to do is mark the environment pool as shared. See Create an Environment Pool.
An environment can be part of only one environment pool	To reduce resource conflicts, you can add an environment to only one environment pool.
Change the environments appropriately for each environment	A robot has the same environment pool during building and testing, as well as in production. When you promote the robot to testing or production, add and remove environments as needed.