Windchill Schedule Queue Vs Unix Cron

[darunachalam]

Ineed to load some data into Windchill at every specified time interval (say every 2 minutes) by executing a loader utility.The possible solutions could be to use a Windchill schedule queue (or) an Unix Cron job. However I am not sure which one to use for my need.

I understand that Unix cron job gives a better performance as its execution is managed outside Windchill;howeverit requires Windchill authentication information to be passed (as hardcoded values) as arguments to the loader utility.

Any suggestion on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

[achukwuka]

If you decide to use a cron, the script that your cron executes should has the arguments -u (windchill userid) and -p (Windchill password). For example

windchill wt.load.LoadFromFile -d filename.xml -u wcadmin -p xyz -CONT_PATH


Thanks

Alexius C. Chukwuka
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[ptc-568593]

Both work, but there are some advantages from running as a Windchill Queue

- You have a UI to see the state of the queue, stop it, restart it etc.

- You can run in the same JVM which willbe the background MS (I am guess the loadfromfile runs foreground by default

- If Windchill shutsdown so does the queue however the CRON will keep executing

- You are not passing the password (someone changes it you will have to change your cron job too)

Just some things to note

[Selva]

hello folks,

I have the same requirement but i dont know which method should i use for running my utility.

I tried the belowsolutions,

1.I have written a service class and registered with wt.properties. This service is started when the method server is starting. I try to get the method context but it says that " no active context".

2. I have written a utility class but i need to start it manually from widchill shell.

Is there any better way to achieve the solution for this problem?

I have no knowledge about widchill scheduler. But i heard that this will also help me.

Can anyone suggest me the best solution to start the utility after method server is started?

Thanks

Selva