Can Somebody out there help me in setting up and administering the GLOBAL Projects using Multiple satellites step by step.I am sure, I will definetely get the answer from somebody out there, please help.
Looking forward to hear from anyone of you.
Have you set up the project locally already, so it is only the global setup part that is missing?
Have you got a global HUB license at your license server?
Hi...Surprised!!! just only I had posted the problem and such a quick reply...
Well, Firstly I must tell you that I have been asked to do all the setup and not yet started anything But as of now we have some 20 workstations on which PDMS has been installed individually and so what I want to hear from that side is, I want to start from scratch setting up AVEVA PDMS in all these workstations in a rightful way so that whatever probelms you all have faced in the past, I won't face it in future.
So, kindly let me know, whether our setup is correct in the way it should be....I mean individually setup PDMS on the systems ...or we just change it in some other way and then we proceed further..
Anyways, we already have our HUB lisence here with us....
waiting to hear from you...
Thank you,
Just need some more information before we start the crash course :nerd:
Which PDMS version will be installed?
If lower than 11.6, would you prefer server installation or installation of the SW on each workstation?
We have 11.2,11.3 & 11.5 installed on the server only and that has been working very well. But with 11.6 we run into the wall with the server installation, as PDMS is now using .NET technology, and it seems very difficult to get it working properly with a server installation only.
As of now, we are using 11.5 only so at present I want to go for 11.5 only since as you have said 11.6 is quite complicated so it is somewhat better to start with some lower version to initiate the work atleast and also we will get some time to think upon 11.6 as we go on getting our work done on 11.5.
But I would like to ask one thing which one is better to go for Seperate workstations or server Installation since what I feel as per License purchase It is not going to give as any benefit But yes we will be able to update our database dynamically at one go by all the users, if I am not wrong.
So,what you think, since we also have to keep in mind that we are required to upgrade it into 11.6 version also in the future and then it won't let us to start the whole thing from scratch.
Depends on what you prefer.
If you install on the server, you only need to do the installation once but it will be a little bit slower than a local installation. On the contrary, if you install everything locally, you have to do the installation on all workstations but PDMS will work faster.
I'd do both. First I would install it on the server and get it working from there, and then I would add "intelligense" to the PDMS startup files, so it would redirect and use the local installation whenever it gets installed locally. This way you would get PDMS up and running fast.
If this sounds OK to you too, we can go ahead and do some setup.
That's great to hear...well, that means we should go ahead with the server installation if that can be done...but what I feel you want to say that there is no longer need to install the PDMS on the workstations at all and every workstation can run pdms by fetching the link from the server and also no need to keep any pdms file on the workstation saving a lot of space on it But is it possible to run any application without having it's exe file on the system and if that is possible,then Luckily I have been dropped into the right hands.
We have only had PDMS installed on the server, and this has saved me a lot of time. On some network segments in our office the users experienced that PDMS was slow so then I just made a local installation for them(copied the installation folder from the server). The users did not have to do any changes to their workstation installation, as I had made the batch files intelligent. The users could still start PDMS fro the batch file on the server.
Let's take this only step by step.
To make a server installation I normally install PDMS on my own workstation and then copy the installation folder to a network share. I have never needed to install anything directly on the server. The copying thing has worked fine for me.
Make sure you also install global at the same time before copying the installation to the server.
When you have done the above, you could inform me and also tell the network path to where you have copied the PDMS installation, so we can start modifying some batch files.
So that means we need to keep one system dedicated for PDMS as a server having installed PDMS on it and then need to make a shared drive on the same which can be accessible to all the workstations and need to put the installation folder i.e. PDMS11.5 folder on this shared drive.Please make me correct if I am going wrong.
But do we leave the system alone without doing anything else on it just to serve the workstations.
Yes, and you also should place the PDMS projects on a server(normally the same one) so that all users can access the same project simultaneously.
So, to the server share you would copy the whole C:\AVEVA folder to the network drive so you would end up with a PDMS installation like L:\AVEVA\... (or whichever drive letter you assign for the PDMS server).
