GLOBAL Issue!!!

Hello Harry,

I am back, but I have a bit limited time at the moment to help you out. I have been out of the offcie a lot lately, and during that time I have got a nice pile of work to be done.

However, one thing regarding Vinyaks attachment. You should not initialise the HUB location the first thing you do after the project has been made global.
The first time you enter Admin module after it has been made global, go to "Locations" in the drop-down and [Modify...] the HUB location. After you have done necessary modifications and press the [Apply] button, PDMS will automatically ask you to initialise the HUB location.

Hi Vinayak,

I was making my project global following these steps....
I entered into Admin and fed the commandline with the following lines...

Lock
Make Global
Unlock

But as soon as I say 'Make Global' and enter, it shows the error...PDMS Global system already created but I am creating it for the first time.
Please help...

/harry

 

I have a little doubt over whether everything can be done at one end and not necessarily being at the other end or site.We are doing each and everything sitting at one place so I am a bit confused and how do I setup daemon since this is the first time I am hearing this strange word and do let me know what is it's use over here and how we can setup the same.

/harry

The global daemon is the application taking care of the database propagation between different locations, and is a application that must be running on computers that have contact with each other(VPN/direct line etc.).
One of the computers is the one that will be named as the HUB, the other computers where daemons will be running are all satellites.
When you set up new satellites you have to enter a "Hostname" in the location information (so also for the HUB). You need to have a data connection between the HUB and the satellites, but not necessearly between different satellites, as all global updates will go through the HUB anyway.

Setting up and starting a global daemon pretty straight forward, and I can post a sample of a startup file when I get into work on Monday.

Harry,

Sorry for delay in reply
note that once you typed MAKE Global
It creats the xxxglb file xxx000 folder , verify it is created...
where xxx is PDMS PROJECT ID

Next time you enter the PDMS it loads the some new menu in ADMIN toolbar
And also indicate XXX is HUB OR satalite

Tell me it showing above mention in admin module or not...

Vinayak

That means Daemons are required to run at the satellites only and not at the Hub side But on the other hand if Daemons are there to communicate with each other or to make connection inbetween two sites then daemons should be present at both ends.Please make it clear....and whether it has anything to do with no. of projects running between two sites.

/harry

Global daemons must be running at all locations where the project is allocated, including the HUB location.

The daemons are handling the database updates, and must therefore be able to communicate between the endpoints. If a global daemon is down in either end, no updates will go through.

(DB) <-> HUB daemon <~~VPN/Internet/Direct conn~~> SATellite daemon <-> (DB)

The daemons read data from the databases, and transfer the changes to the other daemon, which takes care of the writing to the corresponding database at the other location.

The daemons can be run with a CMD (batch) file, and below is a sample of teh contents from such a batch file.


@echo off

Title XXX 11.3 global daemon

SET XXX000=L:\PROJECTS\XXX\XXX000
SET XXXISO=L:\PROJECTS\XXX\XXXISO
SET XXXMAC=L:\PROJECTS\XXX\XXXMAC
SET XXXPIC=L:\PROJECTS\XXX\XXXPIC

set LM_LICENSE_FILE=744@licenseServer
set PDMSEXE=C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5
set PDMSWK=%TEMP%
set PATH=%PDMSEXE%;%PATH%
set DEBUG_ADMIND=999

%PDMSEXE%\admind start XXX

pause

XXX is the PDMS project code, and the directories must be changed according to your environment.

 

269528FirewallGlobal.zip

Harry,

I heard the head-hunters are looking for a lot of people going to Norway to work on PDMS projects.  Are they going to your project?  Is it the BP north sea revamp job, or are there other projects going on in your neck of the woods?

De