Windchill 9.1 Replication

[mnelson-2]

All,
I have recently established a replication server for a Windchill 9.1 system. I am in the middle of a one-time replication task to perform the inital copy ofthe master data to the replication server and have noticed that while the files are being copied to the designated vault folder(s), files are also being placed in the "<loadpoint>\temp\wrmfTransport" folder. Although the filenames are completely different, there is anidentical number of files with matching file sizes in the two folders. PTC Tech Support quoted page 105 of the System Admin guide that states "When your Windchill system is running as expected, you can remove any files in this directory that are older than 24 hours". Tech Support also confirmed that it is safe to delete the files even though the task that is creating the filesis still running. Have any of youseen this behavior? According toTech Support, the answer to the first two questionsbelow is "no", but I thought I would post them (as well as the third question) to the group for feedback:

* Is there a configuration setting that willpreventtemp files from being created for replication tasks?
* If not, is there a configuration setting that will delete the files automatically once the task completes?
* What is the purpose of copying replicated files to a Temp folder? I sure hope the copy happens at the server and the file is not being pulled across the WAN twice!

Thanks in advance...

Mark R. Nelson
SeniorCAD Application Support Specialist
Remy International, Incorporated
2902 Enterprise Drive
Anderson, Indiana 46013

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[mnelson-2]

No responses thus far... Surely someone is replicating data using a 9.1
system... Anyone?



* Is there a configuration setting that will prevent temp files from being
created for replication tasks?
* If not, is there a configuration setting that will delete the files
automatically once the task completes?
* What is the purpose of copying replicated files to a Temp folder?



Thanks,

Mark



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[RandyJones]

In Reply to Mark Nelson:

No responses thus far... Surely someone is replicating data using a 9.1
system... Anyone?

Only on a test system so far.

* Is there a configuration setting that will prevent temp files from being
created for replication tasks?

Not that I am aware of. I also called PTC to ask about this.

* If not, is there a configuration setting that will delete the files
automatically once the task completes?

Not that I am aware of. Again I asked PTC about this. What I ended up doing was writing a sh script that does the following:

1. touches a timestamp reference file named "replication_expire"
   
2. goes into an endless loop that does:
   
   1. sleeps for 1hr
   2. removes all files that are older than replication_expire
      
   3. retouches the timestamp reference file "replication_expire"

I just start this sh script running when I start my initial replication. That way I won't be filling up the filesystem that contains the Windchill tmp directory. When the replication is finished I wait an hr or so and then kill this script. Once I get past the initial replication and am only dealing with daily incremental replication then I will have a cronjob that runs every day and to clean up these files.

* What is the purpose of copying replicated files to a Temp folder?

I asked this question also and really never got an answer. To me it is just adding more overhead to an already unbelievably slow process. See this thread for some more information: http://portal.ptcuser.org/p/fo/st/topic=16&post=79235

Thanks,

Mark



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[jreding]

This is a known issue and there already an SPR on it.







When the number of files in wrmfTransport are to many, the file
replication mechanism fails with an exception. Workaround is to
implement a crontab script that deletes files older than 8hrs in the
wrmfTransport dir at all servers in the system.


Jen Reding
Principal Systems Analyst
Boston Scientific Co...