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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To create an environment, install the robot agent	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 the same project can share an environment pool	You can associate multiple robots with one environment pool as long as all the robots are in the same project. You can't associate robots from multiple projects with the same 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.