Configure and Understand Dedicated Worker and Publisher Queues

Configure and Understand Dedicated Worker and Publisher Queues

James KerkstraSr. Application Engineer/Windchill System Administrator

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Jamie Lynn MomberApplication Engineer/Windchill System Administrator

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• Global leader in the office furniture industry with insight-based solutions that improve work performance.

• Based in Grand Rapids, MI

• 12,000 employees around the world, 6,000 in the US

• http://www.steelcase.com


Steelcase Inc.

http://www.steelcase.com/

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Agenda• Steelcase Windchill environment and configuration

• Out of the box publishing woes

• Steelcase configuration of dedicated Publisher Queues

• Step by step walkthrough

• Video demo

• Question and Answers

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• Master ( Grand Rapids, MI)– 3 servers in a cluster ( HPUX )– 3 CADWorkers ( Windows 2008 server)

• Replica Servers– 2 US– 1 Mexico– 2 Kuala Lumpur– 1 China– 3 France– 2 Germany– 1 Spain

• About 450 Windchill users world wide


Steelcase Windchill Environment

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Out of the Box Publishing

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Problem1: Not so Instant Gratification

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• Issues with CADWorkers hanging indefinitely…

• _ _ _ _ _ _• P – X – Y – R

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….keeps a worker from processing requests…

…causes a traffic jam of requests… …and forced us to implement a timeout of 15 minutes.

Problem 2: CADWorker Wipeout!

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Setting Timeout in CADWorker Recipe File

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15 minute timeout + Large Assembly


Problem 3: Large Assembly Mess!

SAD, DISTRUSTING USERS

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• Viewable created for each family table instance


Problem 4: Large Family Tables

• Assembly instances can take a long time to generate

163 instances

12 minutes

3gerbils

CADWorkers

~11 hours

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• Create dedicated queue set for large assemblies

• Benefits– Set a higher timeout for larger jobs– Retain a lower timeout for smaller jobs – Manual jobs don’t wait so long for larger jobs


Our Solution

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Solution in MotionPublisherQueueL

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1. Create a dedicated Publisher Queue set

2. Create Worker set

3. Map worker sets to Publisher Queue sets

4. Create filter to route jobs to dedicated Publisher Queue set

5. Configure Windchill to use filter method

6. Add a site level preference (optional)


DIY Publisher Configuration

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Create a dedicated Publisher Queue set




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• Add properties to wvs.properties and wt.properties– publish.publishqueue.setnames=SUPER– wt.queue.max.processQueues=<number large enough for MS to start>– wt.queue.removeCompleted.PublisherQueueSUPER1=false

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worker set: SUPER

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Create Worker Set





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• Worker Set– Logical grouping of workers

• Add queueset property in agent.ini file

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worker set: SUPER

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Map worker sets to Publisher Queue sets





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• Can be accomplished with a wvs property OR a custom method– publish.publishqueue.usesetworkers.forqueueset.SUPER=PROE– public static String methodname(Persistable d, String workerType, String fileName,

String queuePriority, String queueSet){

return workerset_to_use;}

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worker set: SUPER

worker set: DEFAULT

• Create custom method– public static String[ ] methodname(Persistable p, int requestType, int

requestSource,String requestPriority, String requestSet, String repName, String repDescription)


Create filter to route jobs to dedicated Publisher Queue set





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• Create custom method– public static String[ ] methodname(Persistable p, int requestType, int requestSource,String

requestPriority, String requestSet, String repName, String repDescription)

Persistable p is the object being publishedint requestType is the publish job request typeint requestSource is the publish job request source String requestPriority is the priority specified on the requestString requestSet is the Publish Queue Set for the requestString repName is the passed Representation name String repDescription is the current Representation description

– Return String array with the following valuesReturn Array [0]: Publisher Queue Priority "H", "M" or "L"Return Array [1]: Publisher Queue SetReturn Array [2]: Representation name to createReturn Array [3]: Representation description to created


Create filter to route jobs to dedicated Publisher Queue set (cont.)

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worker set: SUPER

worker set: DEFAULT

• Create custom method– public static String[ ] methodname(Persistable p, int requestType, int

requestSource,String requestPriority, String requestSet, String repName, String repDescription)

– Set wvs property to call method• publish.publishqueue.priorities.filtermethod=<Class>/<Method>• com.steelcase.wvs.server.filter.WindchillQueueSetFilter/SteelcaseQueueSetFilter


Configure Windchill to use filter method





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Final StatePublisherQueueL

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• Threshold for assembly size– Available in our Java calls– No restart required


SUPER Queue Preference

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• Step 1– Create rbinfo file to add strings for the preference names.


Adding A Preference

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• Step 2– Create xml file to fully describe the preference definition.


Adding A Preference - continued

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• Step 3– from <Windchill Home>/bin– ./ResourceBuild.sh <resource bundle class path> – ( for example com.steelcase.pref.steelcasePreferenceResource )

• Step 4– RESTART WINDCHILL

• Step 5– windchill wt.load.LoadFromFile –d <xml file path>– ( for example

/opt/ptc/WC01/Windchill_10.1/Windchill/src/com/steelcase/pref/createSUPERQueueThreshold.xml )


Adding A Preference - continued

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• Windchill Visualization Services Guide

• Windchill Customization Guide

• Q1 FY13 Platinum Webcast - Dedicated WVS Publisher Queues & Workers


References

l iveglobal.ptc.com

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