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16-Pearl
Sep 16, 2026 11:13 AM UTC
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windchill 13.0 index searching not working

Hi there,

after successfully Installing Windchill 13.0 including working Solr-Server and working “search” within windchill, I migrated my data to that new location.

all issues in upgrademanager were solved successfully.
I can accesss my files and all data is shown. 
I even can checkout files with Creo Parametric and check them in again.

But Indexing does not work at all. 

Solr - Server is running. I can login via http://localhost:8085
Credentials for solr are set in Windchill via 

xconfmanager -s wt.index.solrAdminUser=<User> -t codebase/WEB-INF/conf/index.solrAuth.properties -p
xconfmanager -s wt.index.solrAdminPassword=<Password> -t codebase/WEB-INF/conf/index.solrAuth.properties -p

But queue is not starting.
The number of “remaining items” is stuck at 20k+ items, the number of processed Items is stuck at zero
( Site → Utilities → Indexing Administration ).

I tried “windchill wt.index.BulkIndexTool” in windchill’s hell and I got this:

Core 'wblib' is selected.                                                                                              
Exception in thread "main" wt.util.WTException: An exception occurred while attempting to start the queue
at wt.method.RemoteMethodServer.invoke(RemoteMethodServer.java:823)
at wt.index.BulkIndexHelper.startBulkQueue(BulkIndexHelper.java:299)
at wt.index.BulkIndexTool.processStart(BulkIndexTool.java:508)
at wt.index.BulkIndexTool.processOption(BulkIndexTool.java:570)
at wt.index.BulkIndexTool.processAction(BulkIndexTool.java:207)
at wt.index.BulkIndexTool.run(BulkIndexTool.java:165)
at wt.index.BulkIndexTool.main(BulkIndexTool.java:86)

For the records: There is no working “CAD worker” yet.

MatAnswer
16-Pearl
Sep 16, 2026 1:35 PM UTC

It turns out, that at the source system, there was a dedicated BackgroundMethodServer for Indexing.
 

After changing that group back to “Default”, Indexing starts to work again. 

For performance reasons, I should figure out, how to get this second BGMS started. 

2 replies

18-Opal
Sep 16, 2026 12:28 PM UTC

Hi ​@Mat,

Objects are indexed through the BulkIndexQueue. The exception tells that the system is unable to start the indexing queue.
Restart the BGMS and try again.

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16-Pearl
Sep 16, 2026 1:35 PM UTC

It turns out, that at the source system, there was a dedicated BackgroundMethodServer for Indexing.
 

After changing that group back to “Default”, Indexing starts to work again. 

For performance reasons, I should figure out, how to get this second BGMS started. 

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