Solr Installation On Existing Windchill PDMLink

[kchaithanya]

Hi All,

I want to install Solr index search on existing Windchill (PDMLink 10.1 M050).

Going to do it for first time, Any detailed procedure and suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Krishna Chaithanya.

[BineshKumar1]

1. Download PSI and Solr CDs for 10.1 M050
2. Ensure that WindchillDS is running.
3. Run PSI and select Update Existing Installation
4. Select Install Optional Components > Windchill Index Search
5. Complete the installation

Regards

Binesh Kumar

Medtronic - MITG

[kchaithanya]

Hi Binesh,

Thanks for your quick response.Will try to install it.

Besides the above steps, I'd also like to know whether they're any post installation steps which need to perform.

Regards,

Krishna Chaithanya.

[BineshKumar1]

Yes, you have to run bulk index tool. Review the indexing policy from policy administrator.

Run windchill wt.index.BulkIndexTool  and start bulk indexing to index all the existing document. This can slow down the server, so pick a time outside business hours

Regards

Binesh Kumar

Medtronic - MITG

[kchaithanya]

Thanks Binesh for your valuable reply.

Regards,

Krishna Chaithanya

[kchaithanya]

Hi Binesh,

I've installed Solr on Windchill 10.2 M030 (Tested on this version). But while trying to running bulk indexing tool, giving following error.

windchill wt.index.BulkIndexTool

You must login as a user from the Administrator group.


ERROR: You must login as a user from the Administrator group.

You did not successfully authenticate as a user from the Administrator group.

Note : Found  that there is no property like wt.manager.monitor.start.BackgroundMethodServer=1 but the property wt.queue.executeQueues=false exists in wt.properties file

Please suggest me to resolve this.

Regards,

Krishna Chaithanya

[BineshKumar1 · Accepted solution]

Hello Krishna,

You need to have atleast one background method server or set wt.queues.executequeues to false.

Regards

Binesh Kumar

Medtronic - MITG

[kchaithanya]

Hi Binesh,

Configured background method server. Now all old objects are getting indexed. Thanks for the reply.

Regards,

Krishna Chaithanya

[gtanpure]

Hi there is another way through this,

windchill --javaargs="-Dcom.ptc.net.auth.user=<username> -Dcom.ptc.net.auth.password=<password>" wt.index.BulkIndexTool

• Doesn’t work in all cases, but can help with some command lines. The “ “s are needed for Windows. Unix may work better with single quotes ‘ ‘ s

This should start bulk index tool UI wherein you can select whichever option you need.

[kchaithanya]

Hi Ganesh,

Noted and will try the same. Thanks for the response

Regards,

Krishna Chaitanya