fishbowl webinar - windchill performance: you can't manage what you can't measure -...
DESCRIPTION
Join our webinar to learn how linkTuner lets you measure your Windchill performance, so you can manage your performance improvement initiatives. Version 3.0 introduces a completely redesigned, web-based UI and easy-to-use job scheduling. With linkTuner you can: Simulate dozens of users and stress test your system without the time and effort of your engineers Benchmark your Windchill PDMLink system Run multiple operation types: Search/Info/Browse, Download/Open, Create Plot, Revise, Upload/Check-in, Promote and Delete Revision New in 3.0: Schedule reoccurring jobs for on-going system monitoring New in 3.0: Dynamic reporting graphs outcome by job and operationTRANSCRIPT
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
To
tal B
en
ch
mark
Tim
e in
Min
ute
s
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
(952) 465-3418
Jody Zeitler