A ProvisioningRobot is a special Program component that can be customized and saved on the Supervisor station, then selected as the source “robot” in a RunRobotStep when configuring a Niagara Network provisioning job. When queued and run by the Supervisor’s BatchJobService, the program code in the ProvisioningRobot is executed by each station included in the provisioning job, by each station’s ProgramService.

Starting in AX-3.7, by default you require “super user” permissions on a station to add/edit Program and Robot comonents, including ProvisioningRobot components. For related details see Provisioning Robot notes.

As copied from the provisioningNiagara palette, a ProvisioningRobot is “pre-configured” with some essential “wrapper” lines of code. Also included is placeholder “do something” code that may prove useful in some cases (if modified in a way meaningful when run against the stations included in a job).

Find the ProvisioningRobot in the provisioningNiagara palette. The default view for the ProvisioningRobot is the ProvisioningRobotEditor, where you edit and compile the Baja code intended to be run by all stations in a Niagara provisioning job.

For more details, see Run Robot step and Provisioning Robot notes.