restarting Windchill using ANT

[SimonLucas]

Hi,

currently developing an ANT script to apply a load of business config. I can stop both Windchill and TOMCAT no problem, and re-start TOMCAT co problem. However when I try to restart Windchill, although the server manager and method server start OK, the ANT script hangs and so does not complete steps following teh windchill start.

The ant targets I am using to stop windchill & tomcat, cleare the tomcat cache and restart both tomcat and windchill is as follows:

	<target name="stop_servers" depends="loadProps">
		<exec executable="${wchome}/bin/windchill.exe">
			<arg line="stop"/">
		</exec>
		<exec executable="net">
			<arg line="stop" ${tomservice}&quot;="/>
		</exec>
	</target>
	
	
	<target name="clear_cache" depends="stop_servers">
		<delete dir="${tomcat_cache}"></delete>
	</target>
	
	
	
	
	<target name="start_servers" depends="clear_cache">
		<exec executable="net">
			<arg line="start" ${tomservice}&quot;="/>
			
		</exec>
                <exec executable="${wchome}/bin/windchill.exe">
			<arg line="start"/">
		</exec>
		
	</target>

Am I doing something wrong or is this an issue?

Using 9.1 M062 by the way on a Windows server.

Cheers

Simon Lucas

[jessh]

I don't know why you'd be seeing a hang, but I would suggest that
deleting the Tomcat work directory should only be done when one has
installed a patch, MOR, or customization update. Otherwise you're just
ensuring slower response times until all the JSPs are recompiled.

--
Jess Holle

[aemaeth.2501]

Hi,

I do not unfortunately. Investigated but didn't found any way.

Regards,

Thibault Magné

Le 4 janvier 2012 15:23, Lucas, Simon <-> a écrit :

> Perfect - worked a treat.****
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> Do you know if it is possible to check if server has started before
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> *From:* Thibault Magné [
> <echo message="Starting" tomcat...&quot;="/>
> <exec<br/>> executable="${windchill.home}/../Tomcat/bin/wttomcat_start.bat"
> spawn="true"/>
> <echo message="Starting" windchill=" servers...&quot;="/>
> <exec executable="${windchill.home}/bin/Windchill.exe"&lt;br"/>> spawn="true">
> <arg value="start"/"...

[SimonLucas]

No problem. Thanks for your help anyway.









From: Thibault Magné [

[JulienBoulay]

Hi,

I've already met this problem when starting up the server. I've solved it using the following script:

<echo>processing windchillStart</echo>

<exec dir="${wt.home}${file.separator}bin" executable="windchill" vmlauncher="false">

<arg value="start"/>

</exec>

Be aware of something by using these scripts : if your Windchill servers usually start as Windows Services, the stop and start scripts will result in new processes created by the logged user and

[tbaltes]

Here are ANT targets (that can be added to your ANT project) to start and stop Tomcat and server Manager/Method Server

These assume Apache is running, and that Tomcart and Server Manager/Method Server are not running as services (we use these command on our development machines as part of the deployment process.

<property name="windchill.home" location="C:/ptc/Windchill_9.1/Windchill"/">



<target name="stopTomcat">

<exec executable="${windchill.home}/../Tomcat/bin/wttomcat_stop.bat"/>
</target>

<target name="startTomcat">

<exec spawn="true" executable="${windchill.home}/../Tomcat/bin/wttomcat_start.bat"/>
</target>

<target name="startMethodServer">

<exec spawn="true" executable="${windchill.home}/bin/windchill.exe">
<arg value="start"/">
</exec>
</target>

<target name="stopMethodServer">

<exec executable="${windchill.home}/bin/windchill.exe">
<arg value="stop"/">
</exec>
</target>

<target name="startServers">
<antcall target="startTomcat"/>
<antcall target="startMethodServer"/>
</target>

<target name="stopServers">
<antcall target="stopTomcat"/>
<antcall target="stopMethodServer"/>
</target>

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks -

Todd