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Run PAD Unattended on Gateway Cluster

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Hi All,

 

I need to run a Bot unattended on 10 machines. I am trying to achieve this through Load balancing of Gateway clustering. My cloud flow looks like - When an item is added in SharePoint list, trigger Desktop flow which runs on Gateway Cluster of 10 machines. 

 

At a time, 100-200 items can be added in the SP list, which would trigger 100-200 instances of Cloud flow and thus, 100-200 Desktop flows will compete to execute on cluster of 10 gateways. Each Transaction ( SP list item) can take about an hour to complete its Desktop Flow execution. 

 

I have been facing below issues with this approach :

1. Some flows fail with error - No machine able to run the desktop flow has been found. Aborting execution.

2. Some flows fail with random error - "There's an issue starting your desktop flow. No machine able to run the desktop flow has been found. Aborting execution." This happens even though the Gateways are online.

3. As per MS documentation. it states that - "A timeout will occur if desktop flows don’t run within three hours after being requested." In my scenario, a desktop flow might need to wait in queue for more than 3 hours since 100-200 flows need to execute on 10 machines.

 

Kindly advise if Gateway clustering would be a suitable approach, else please suggest an alternate approach to process multiple transactions through Desktop flow on 10 machines. 

 

Thanks

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  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    4,204 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Kritika 

     

    i think we hav one more alternate option instead of cluster 

    we can add many machines to cloud nd u can connect in pad also

     

    in pad u setting u r having machine option 

    nd in cloud machine option is thr

    so in cloud go to machine nd use group machine options add machines of 10 

    i think u got solutions wat u r looking 

     

    Reagrds

    Ahammad Riyaz

  • Kritika Profile Picture
    9 on at

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for your response.

     

    I have tried Machine Group functionality as well. But, the flows fail with this approach too. 

    Error message - Encountered internal server error. The tracking Id is '02ed2b76-b3d9-eb11-bacb-000d3a57752f'.

     

    Thanks

  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    4,204 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Kritika 

    Currently i think this much option available if u know more abt tat u can raise tickets i think

     

    Regards

    Thank you

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