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18-Opal
March 12, 2013
Question

Creo Elements/Pro Distributed Batch in Standalone mode?

  • March 12, 2013
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Okay, I am starting to feel like an idiot here...


How do you run Creo Elements/Pro Distributed Batch in Standalone mode?


I have it installed, but am evidently in Distributed mode, it keeps asking for a DSM. I do not want a DSM, I want standalone. I cannot for the life of me see how to change it.



Details:


Windows 7


Dell Laptop


Creo Elements / Pro (Wildfire 5.0 m160)


-marc


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13-Aquamarine
March 13, 2013
In Edit -> Preferences, can you set "Default DSM" to "Standalone"?

I'm looking at the WF4 version, so it may not be exactly the same...

Jonathan
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18-Opal
March 13, 2013
Hi Jonathan,

I logged a ticket with PTC help too, they indicated that there should be a Standalone entry in the DSM drop down box. But for me, there isn't one, so evidently something is wrong with the installation...

-marc

14-Alexandrite
March 14, 2013

Are you under Edit > Preferences, or the DSM entry for a particular Task Group?


Make sure there are no Task Groups running, otherwise you will not be able to change the DSM value.


Exit Distributed Batch, and kill any nmsd.exe processes - then try ptcdbatch again and Edit > Preferences...


Check %APPDATA%\PTC\ProENGINEER\Distributed BATCH\.dbc_prefs.txt


Default.Manager=_LOCAL

Default.ManagerDesc=Standalone

Check to see if you have afirewall blocking communication or a port conflict. I think Distributed Batch tries to use port 8001 by default, and then should fail over to 8002+


Depending on what you are tyring to accomplish, you may also want to consider using a later release for batch processing.


For Creo 2.0, use M040+. https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS77409