Creating a Windchill Sandbox for testing

[DamianCastillo]

We are having major issues with the process of creating a Sandbox to test our new Windchill 10.1 installation.

The process is very complicated, requires many steps and hard to trouble shoot if it does not work. We are also concerned if we miss one of the many variables that point to the database or app server is missed that the sandbox could be accessing the live server and we won't know it.

There is no global variable that we can find that links the appserver, dataserver, etc across the Windchill installation. If this were the case, it would be easy to map everything over to the sandbox versions and everything should work.

Does anyone have some feedback that could help us with this?

Creating a sandbox should be a standard practice that all companies do because you can't just upgrade Windchill or mess around with configuration changes without risking the live system from going down.

Please help.

"Too many people walk around like Clark Kent, because they don't realize they can Fly like Superman"

[BobLehman2]

Damian,

Shawn Lothrop from Boston Engineering gave a presentation at last years PTC User group on this top - using virtual environments to solve the sandboxing issue. There is a white paper on the talk at the link below. The process works very well for creating N number of clones of an environment.

[clawrenz-2]

Hi Damian,

A good practice is to edit the hosts file on the sandbox server and add the production Windchill server and Oracle server (if necessary) and have those point to 127.0.0.1.

That way if any connection attempt is made to the production server it will just call itself on the sandbox instead.

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 ProductionSrv.company.com<">http://ProductionSrv.company.com> ProductionSrv OracleSrv.comnpany.com<">http://OracleSrv.comnpany.com> OracleSrv.

Best Regards,
Carsten Lawrenz
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We are having major issues with the process of creating a Sandbox to test our new Windchill 10.1 installation.

The process is very complicated, requires many steps and hard to trouble shoot if it does not work. We are also concerned if we miss one of the many variables that point to the databa...

[SteveVinyard]

A Test server is absolutely necessary for most Windchill users. The Rehost process is difficult if you are new to Windchill. However once you have the process dialed in it can be documented and a lot of it scripted to occur automatically.


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Steve Vinyard
Application Engineer

[DamianCastillo]

Bob,

Thank you so much for sharing the information. I was there last year but
could not attend every session. I am looking through the information now.

Thanks

Damian Castillo
CAD & Administration Manager
Engineering Department
Hensley Industries