Neurons Bots creation
Ivanti Neurons Bots can be built in one of two ways; starting from blank, or from a preconfigured template. If creating a bot from the blank option you must first select the type of bot you want to create, based on the trigger; schedule or custom action. You then build out the bot in the Neurons Bots editor by adding stages. If there is a template that fits your needs, select to create the bot from template. New Ivanti Neurons Bots templates will be added regularly.
Bot creation from blank
Create a bot to add to your bot catalog. To do, this go to Ivanti Neurons platform > Neurons Bots and select the Create bot option.
On the Create bot page you need to select the Trigger type for the bot you want to create; a Schedule bot or a Custom Action bot:
Triggers
There are two types of triggers in Neurons Bots:
- Schedule: The bot runs automatically on a specified schedule. Using a schedule trigger lets you run a bot periodically against device groups to perform repetitive IT tasks without the effort. Example: You might want to create a bot that will automatically clean up old files on devices each week to maintain a healthy amount of disk space.
- Custom Action: The bot runs when a custom action is manually run from within Devices. The custom action can be run against a single device, or multiple devices. See Device view published options to specify the bot settings. If you want to allow the bot to be run on multiple devices the Bulk Custom Actions role must be assigned to the user in Admin > Access Control > Roles.
The trigger is the first stage that is added to the bot editor. Go to Trigger settings for more details.
Regardless of trigger type, you can select a bot to run immediately by manually selecting the Run Now option. Learn more about Run Now.
Creating a bot from blank
- From Ivanti Neurons platform, open Neurons Bots from the menu. The Neurons Bots homepage displays.
- Select Create bot, the Create Bot page displays.
- Select the bot trigger; Schedule or Custom Action, click Create. The Create Draft dialog displays.
- In the Create Draft dialog, enter a Name for the bot, and an optional Description.
- Select Create Draft. The Bot editor displays.
- In the Bot editor you will see the selected trigger in the work area, click on the trigger to open the Trigger settings panel.
- In the Trigger settings panel set the criteria for the Schedule, or the Custom Action. Learn more about Trigger settings.
- Click Apply to save the settings and return to the Bot editor.
- In the Bot editor, build the bot by dragging and dropping Stages over to the work area. Learn more about Neurons Bots Stages and the Neurons Bots editor.
- Click on a Stage in the work area to open the Stage settings panel.
- In the Stage settings panel complete the settings fields. Learn more about Stage settings.
- Once all stages have been added and the bot is complete, click Save and publish.
- To make the bot available to use you must set the Trigger status to Active. This is found in the Trigger settings panel. Click on the Trigger in the work area to open the settings panel and toggle the Trigger status from Inactive to Active.
You can toggle the status back to Inactive if you want to make the bot unavailable.
You can save the bot as a draft at anytime, click Save draft. If you exit the editor without saving, a save prompt dialog displays, you can select to save a draft, or discard any changes you have made.
When you save a draft, the bot name displays with my draft next to it, to indicate the draft status.
The current bot version will always be the latest one, if you want to use an earlier version you must select the version in the Bots results, edit and Save and publish. This creates a new version which will be the current one. Learn more about Neurons Bots versioning.
Bot creation from template
Ivanti frequently release new and updated out-of-the-box Neurons Bots templates. Deploy the templates to accelerate bot creation.
The Ivanti Neurons Bots templates are bot examples and must be tested before deployment.
Template Categories
- Issue Prevention
- Self-Heal
- Sentiment Surveys
- Human Triggered
Creating a bot from a template
- From Ivanti Neurons platform, open Neurons Bots from the menu. The Neurons Bots homepage displays.
- Select Create bot, the Create Bot page displays.
- Click on the template category; Issue Prevention, Self-Heal, Sentiment Survey, Human Triggered. Each category will have the available templates listed.
- Select Learn more on a template to display the Template Information dialog. The dialog displays a description of what the template bot is used for, the OS compatibility, and any other instructions before deploying.
- On the template information dialog, select Create to display the Neurons Bots editor. Alternatively, select Cancel to return to the Create Bot page.
- In the Bot editor, edit and customize any of the stages to suit your requirements. To do this, click on a stage to open the Stage settings panel.
- If you want the bot to be active to use, click on the Schedule trigger stage to open the Trigger settings panel.
- Select the Trigger status toggle from Inactive to Active. The bot can now be invoked by the trigger; either on the specified schedule or as a custom action from a device.
- Once you are happy with all the settings, click Save and publish.
You can save the bot as a draft at anytime, click Save draft. If you exit the editor without saving, a save prompt dialog displays, you can select to save a draft, or discard any changes you have made.
When you save a draft, the bot name displays with my draft next to it, to indicate the draft status.
After deploying the bot, the template may change over time, this will not affect the deployed bot. However, if you want to use the latest changes you must re-deploy the bot.
Save and publish
Once you have created a bot, select Save and publish. The Save and publish dialog displays.
Name: Enter a name for the bot. Once the bot has been saved you can edit the name on the Neurons Bots homepage > Actions > Rename, or on the Neurons Bots results page, select the edit icon 
next to the name. Renaming the bot will not create a new version.
If a bot has been saved as a draft version, my draft will display after the name.
Description: Enter a description for the bot. The first two lines of the description display on the bots homepage along with the name, hover over to pop up the full description. Once the bot has been saved you can edit the description on the Neurons Bots homepage > Actions > Edit Description, or on the Neurons Bots results page, select Description to the right of the bot name. Editing the bot description will create a new version.
Include a category: You can assign the bot version a category, either enter a new category to create it, or select an existing one from the drop-down list. Limited to 50 characters.
Include a comment: You can enter a comment for the bot version. This can be useful to differentiate between different versions of the same bot.
Save and publish: Select to save any edits and publish. This creates a new version of the bot.
Learn more about Neurons Bots versioning.