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linkTuner Webinar

March 20, 2013

Rick Passolt & Jody Zeitler

Fishbowl Solutions, Inc.

Agenda

• Intro

• Solution Review

• Demo

• Q&A / Next Steps

Mission Deliver best in class solutions and services that

exceed our customers expectations and deliver true

value and a return on our customer’s investments.

• Incorporated in 1999

• Gold Level Software Member of PTC Partner Advantage

• Customer Focused & Guaranteed Results!

A Sampling of Our Customers

Some Fishbowl Tools

Pre-Implementation

Migration

Go Live

Sustaining

•Data Clean

Up Tools •linkTuner

•pubSchedule

•linkAccess

•pubSchedule

•Utilities for Windchill

•linkTuner

•linkSecurity

•linkExtract

•linkLoader

•linkTuner

Windchill Implementation

linkTuner Overview

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure

• 2 customers were implementing PDMLink

– 100+ Pro/E users at one customer

– 200+ Pro/E users at the other

– PTC didn’t have a tool to do it

• Customer Thoughts

– How will the performance of 10.X or 9.X compare to 3.4 or 8.0?

– Have we sized our hardware appropriately?

– How will the system perform Day 1?

– Is the system performance degrading over time?

• Customer wanted data to support reality

– “I think PDMLink 10.1 is slower than 9.1”

– “The system seems slower than a couple months ago”

linkTuner

• Background

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure

Typical Tune/Test Options

• Do nothing …hope it works

• Use Internal Resources…time/resource consuming

• Use LoadRunner or Jmeter…need expertise, doesn’t use

Pro/ENGINEER, can fill cache and eliminate the server side

exercise

• Use PTC System Monitor (PSM)

• Use linkTuner

• Combination of the above

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure

Solution: linkTuner

• Simulates Pro/E uses across your network

• Automates the benchmarking process

• Collects empirical data

• Runs against 3.4, 8.0, 9.X and 10.X

• Let’s you measure so you can manage

• Server console coordinates

task lists for CAD agents

• Can run the following

checks:

– Search/Info/Browse

– Revise

– Download/Open

– Upload/Check-in

– Promote

– Delete Revision

How linkTuner Works

• Insures unique items are loaded to avoid object

caching to enhance effectiveness.

• Can run either a fixed list of objects, or for a fixed

length of time.

Solution: linkTuner

Test Data Set “A”

How linkTuner Works – Use Case A

linkTuner

Server Console

Location “X”

CAD Agent

Windchill

App Server Location “Y”

Agent

Location “Z”

Agent

Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

Solution: linkTuner

Test Data Set “A”

How linkTuner Works – Use Case A

linkTuner

Server Console

Location “X”

CAD Agent

Location “Y”

Agent

Windchill

App Server

Location “Z”

Agent

Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

Solution: linkTuner

Test Data Set “A”

How linkTuner Works – Use Case A

linkTuner

Server Console

Location “X”

CAD Agent

Location “Y”

Agent

Location “Z”

Agent

Windchill

App Server

Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

Example Result in Excel

Solution: linkTuner

9.6

29.4

43.8 45.8

16.2

61.9

86.2

111.3

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

MN AZ Puerto Rico Switzerland

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Client Location (Server in MN)

PDMLink

Ilnk 3.x

Solution: linkTuner

Test Data Set “B”

How linkTuner Works – Use Case B

linkTuner

Server Console

Agent

Agent

Agent

Windchill

App Server

Mass Load the System Prior to Go Live

Solution: linkTuner

How linkTuner Works – Use Case C

linkTuner

Server Console Agent

Windchill

App Server

Test Data Set “A”

General Usage

Measure exact same Benchmark while System is

Under Normal Load

• Configure for your server

• Configure Agents

• Select data set

• Run linkTuner

• Analyze results

– Logs include the granularity to view results in a number of ways

• Individual tasks or Subsets of tasks

• Individual worker or Subsets of workers

• Variances between different runs

• XML file to make your own reports in Excel

How linkTuner Works

• Logs include the granularity to view results in a number of ways

– Individual tasks or Subsets of tasks

– Individual worker or Subsets of workers

– Variances between different runs

– XML file to make your own reports in Excel

How linkTuner Works

• Logs include the granularity to view results in a number of ways

– Individual tasks or Subsets of tasks

– Individual worker or Subsets of workers

– Variances between different runs

– XML file to make your own reports in Excel

How linkTuner Works

How linkTuner Works

Demo

Thank You!

• Q & A

Rick Passolt

rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com

(952) 465-3418

sales@fishbowlsolutions.com

Jody Zeitler

jzeitler@fishbowlsolutions.com