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jv83421-Visitor
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October 6, 2010
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Windchill Configuration Assistant

I just installed and executed WCA on a HP-UX server with 8 CPU's and 32 GB
of RAM. It recommended only 3 method servers. I would have guessed more
than 3.

I'm just wondering what others have found using WCA. Are you making use of
the recommended values?

Jim

Jim Van Dragt
Product Development Systems Analyst/Developer - Lead
Information Technology
hermanmiller.com
616 654 5285 OFFICE
616 836 8394 MOBILE
HermanMiller

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BobLehman212-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 6, 2010
I have used it on all of our servers and found it to be better than what most people can do. Did it do 3 front servers and 1 background - that would make more sense to me.
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jv83421-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 6, 2010
Yes, 3 foreground and 1 background.

Jim Van Dragt
Product Development Systems Analyst/Developer - Lead
Information Technology
hermanmiller.com
616 654 5285 OFFICE
616 836 8394 MOBILE
HermanMiller



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BobLehman212-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 6, 2010

I would guess it gave each of them 4G to work with as well as giving tomcat about the same amount. That should support a fairly sizable installation.
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ShawnLothrop1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 6, 2010
The Enterprise Deployment Center did a nice job with the Windchill Configuration Assistant, WCA. We've been using it for a while and have had very good results. The number of recommend method servers is calculated from a lookup table in the Configurator.properties files located in the root folder of the WCA directory.

Here is a section of the file showing the WCA will recommend 3 method servers for 8 CPUs. The WCA won't recommend 4 method servers until you hit 10 CPUs.

# Ratio of CPU to MethodServer

methodServersPerCpu.1=1
methodServersPerCpu.2=2
methodServersPerCpu.3=2
methodServersPerCpu.4=2
methodServersPerCpu.5=2
methodServersPerCpu.6=2
methodServersPerCpu.7=3
methodServersPerCpu.8=3
methodServersPerCpu.10=4


-- Shawn

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PreetiGupta15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
October 6, 2010
I liked WCA very much. Though it is not supported for 9.1 M040 but it run just fine.

There is lot of confusion about setting the various Windchill caches. WCA also helps in determining cache sizes. Now at least we can be sure from Windchill side that it is tuned. Rest is the Oracle tuning.

Thanks,
Preeti
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ShawnLothrop1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 6, 2010
The WCA is supported on Windchill 9.0 and higher. It was released in 9.1 M050, but it was field tested by PTC long before the M050 release. We've used it successfully on many releases prior 9.1 M050 including M040.

-- Shawn

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Robert-Altman10-Marble
10-Marble
March 29, 2012
I used the Configuration Assistant previously during a earlier test run
but now I seem to missing something that just does not seem to be
obvious to me.



When I execute even the simplest syntax of



ant -f WindchillConfigAssistant.xml -projecthelp



I get:



c:\PTC\Intralink\Windchill\utilities\wca>ant -f WindchillConfigAssistant
-projecthelp

Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!

Build failed

c:\PTC\Intralink\Windchill\utilities\wca>



Any thoughts??



Thanks in advance,




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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
March 29, 2012
Need to set the Windchill shell on the WCA directory. I think this has an error in the path though.

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BobLehman212-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 29, 2012
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:33 -0400, Robert Altman wrote:
> I used the Configuration Assistant previously during a earlier test
> run but now I seem to missing something that just does not seem to be
> obvious to me.

Did you cut and paste that directly from the pdf document?  If so the
"-" may not actually be a dash, but the longer version.  Replace the
dashes by hand and see what  you get.


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> When I execute even the simplest syntax of
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> ant -f WindchillConfigAssistant.xml -projecthelp
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> I get:
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> c:\PTC\Intralink\Windchill\utilities\wca>ant -f
> WindchillConfigAssistant -projecthelp
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> Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
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> Build failed
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> c:\PTC\Intralink\Windchill\utilities\wca>
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> Any thoughts??
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> Thanks in advance,
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> cid:012445618@15012007-1FE4  
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> ----------

--
Bob Lehman

Email: -
Mobile: (503)888-1471



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Robert-Altman10-Marble
10-Marble
March 29, 2012
Thanks that’s exactly what happened cut and pasted it from my WordPad file.

Regards,

Robert

Arthrex, Inc.
Manager, Engineering CAD & Tech Support
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