About Aphelion and LDAP backup WNC8.0

[aakolkar]

Dear fellow Windchill System Administrators,

We are on WNC 8.0 M030 and have taken backup of LDAP successfully using the following in the windchill shell:

• windchill com.infoengine.util.LDAPExport -dir F:\ptc\Windchill_8.0 -ldiffile G:\Name of location folder\desired_name.ldif

Target Branch LDAP backup:-

• windchill com.infoengine.util.LDAPExport -dir F:\ptc\Windchill_8.0 -ldiffile G:\LDAP_Backup_250416\SM_Target_LDAP_Backup_250416.ldif -reldn "dc=in"

QUESTION:Please let me know if Aphelion backup is necessary apart from the above LDAP backup.

Am aware that WNC8 uses aphelion for user & password management with LDAP as the protocol and Windchill10.0 onwards everything is based on - Windchill Directory Service.

Thanks,

~Amol

Alicon Group(Atlas Castalloys)Pune,India

[aakolkar]

Please let me know if there are any inputs..

Thanks,

Amol

Silicon Meadows Design Ltd.

[BineshKumar1]

The target config branch has just the confg information like query delegates for IE. You need to export the entire LDAP for a successful restore point. Use the below command to take a complete Aphelion export. R:\usr\sbin\lde\export -c "root" --f R:\usr\var\lde\PTCLdap\PTCLdap_lde.conf. This will export the entire root branch. It is good practice to  sync this backup with Oracle backup

Thanks

Binesh Kumar

Medtronic

[aakolkar]

Hi Binesh,

Thank you for your input!

The export.exe in our Windchill installation is of 0KB and if we run it in we get the following error:

Folks!- Please let me know if Aphelion backup is necessary apart from the above LDAP backup.

Thanks,

Amol