FlexPLM Install Guide

Flex PLM Installation Guide
Table of Contents
1.
General Guidelines:.............................................................................................. 2
2.
Oracle Installation:............................................................................................... 2
3.
Windchill PDMLink 10.1 Installation......................................................................8
4.
FlexPLM 10.1 M010 Installation..........................................................................32
5.
Restart the Environment.................................................................................... 43
6.
Adding Windchill Directory Server as a Windows service...................................43
7.
Backup............................................................................................................... 45
8.
Sample User Credentials.................................................................................... 46
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1. General Guidelines:
1. Admin Rights is needed to install Flex PLM 10.1
2. Oracle 11g R2 has to be installed manually using the installable
2. Oracle Installation:
1. Remove the check box and click on next
2. Click on Yes
3. Select Install database software only and click on next
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4. Select single instance and click on next
5. Click next
6. Select Standard Edition and click next
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7. Select Oracle Base: (ex. D:\Oracle11gR2) [Do not give any space in between
while creating this folder]
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8. Click on ignore All checkbox and click next.
9. Click on finish
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10.Click close button once the installation is complete.
11.Restart the system.
3. Windchill PDMLink 10.1 Installation

1. Execute the PTC Solution Installer setup.vbs:
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2. Click OK to continue.
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3. Click next to continue.
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4. Select I accept and click Next to continue.
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5. Select Solution option and click next to continue.
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6. Select Windchill PDMLink and click next to continue.
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7. Select Thumbnail Generator and Viewable compression Utilities option and

click next to continue.
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8. Select options of each component as shown above and click next to

continue.
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9. Review the above screen and click next to continue.
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10.Choose the Create option for Database and Database Installation

User as oracle and FlexPLM will be installed in same machine. Do not
check Database Application User. Click Next continue.
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11.Choose the option as appropriate and click next to continue.

12.Give the details of email Id as [email protected], Company name infosys, SON leave it as blank, SCN leave it as blank. Click next to
continue.
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13.Change the base installation folder to D:. Remove default Windchill_10.1 in

Base installation directory path. The Base Installation Directory path should
be: D:\Ptc. Click next to continue.
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14.Select Create database schema and Load Base data option. Click next to
continue.
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15.Give the fully qualified DNS name for the webserver (DNS name is the name
of the desktop say blrkec114903d.ad.infosys.com. This will be auto
populated). Leave the default value for the ports as it is. For the Servlet
Engine DNS leave it as localhost. Click Next to continue.
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16.Review the above screen and click next to continue.

17.Do not select Enable Multibyte, give oracle servers dns host name, DB
listener port, Oracle SID and oracle username as mentioned below (If it is
auto populated already, leave it as is, else give the values as mentioned
below):
Oracle Database DNS Registered Host Name:
Ex. blrkec877532d.ad.infosys.com
Oracle Database Listener Port Number:
1521
Oracle Database System Identifier (SID):
wind
Oracle User Name for Windchill Installation:
wcadmin
Oracle User password for Windchill Installation:
wcadmin
Click next to continue.
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18.Enter the ldap server DNS name (will be auto populated), give ldapadmin as
password for LPAD Server Administrator password. Review rest of the values
and click next to continue.
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19.Enter wcadmin as password for Windchill Site Admin. Enter infosys as the
initial organization name and ad.infosys.com as Organization Internet
Domain Name. Review the rest of the values and click next to continue.
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20.Select Next to continue.
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21.Browse and locate the installable folder location and click next to continue.
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22.Review and make sure all the components are saying Staging Area, as
shown in above Fig. Click Next to continue.
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23.Review the summary of the installation parameters. Click the save button at
the top to save the summary for future debugging purposes. Click Install to
continue.
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24.Review the installation results. If the Installation is success click done to

close the installer. If there is any error occurred during install, review the log
file for details. Fix the error eg: database connection issue etc then rerun
the solution installer with option recovery in Install Type options page. Rest
all pages remains the same.
25.Check the Windchill PDMLink Installation is success:
Check Apache console is running.
Check Server Manager Console is running and there is no error.
Check Method Server console is running and there is no error.
In Windows start menu Windchill_10.1 Windchill Home Page.
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26.Take a copy of the PTC(D:\ptc) folder as a backup in say

D:\WCBackup\Windchill.
27.Take the database backup.
4. FlexPLM 10.1 M010 Installation
Note:
Whenever the servers starts or restarts wait until the Method

Server is ready completely and then proceed with the installation otherwise it
will fail
Oracle Home Listener and Oracle Service Wind should be started and Server
Manager, Method Server and Apache must be stopped before installing Flex.
1. Extract flexplm_v_10.1_M010_03_PDMLINK10.1_M010_21.zip to Windchill
Installation Directory eg: D:\ptc\Windchill.
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2. Click Extract to continue.
3. When there is a popup for confirmation of File replace. Select Do this for all
current Items and click yes to continue.
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4. In Windchill shell, navigate to WT_HOME\src\com\lcs\build\installer folder and

run install bat as shown above.
5. Select y for configuring apache.
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6. Select new for installaion.
7. Enter wcadmin as Windchill administrator user credential.
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8. Select y for apache configure from template.
9. Select y for DB schema.
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10.Enter db password as: wcadmin
11.Select RFA for library name.
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12.Select n as for using different container.

13.
After the above step, installer will restart Apache and Method
server. Wait for the method server to be completely up , i.e wait for
the Method server ready message on the MS console before
proceeding to next step.
14.Select y for loading library RFA. Keep monitoring the MS console for any
error.
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15.Select y for loading RFA objects. Keep monitoring the MS console for any
error.
16.Select y for system setup. Keep monitoring the MS console for any error.
17.After the above step, installer will restart Apache and Method
server. Wait for the method server to be completely up, i.e wait for
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the Method server ready message on the MS console before

proceeding to next step.
18.Select y to load RFA files.
19.Press Enter key to proceed. Installer will restart Apache, and Method server
to complete the installation.
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20.Hit Enter to exit installation.

21.Check FlexPLM Installation is completed successfully.
Method server is up and the console doesnt have any error.
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Login into FlexPLM Home page.
Navigate to Administrative Manage Processes Lifecycle Administrator

and check Lifecycle applets are working fine.
Navigate to Administrative Manage Users Site Users and check
Participant Administrator is working fine.
5. Restart the Environment

1. Reboot the environment, to kill the processes that have been started during
installation process like Apache and Windchill Directory Server.
6. Adding Windchill Directory Server as a Windows service

1. Navigate to F:\ptc\WindchillDS\server\bat and Click on control-panel.bat.
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2. Select Local Server option as shown above.
3. Under Runtime Options, click on Windows Service. In Window Service

Configuration popup window, select enable.
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4. After adding successfully Windchill Directory Server to windows service,

success screen is given as shown above.
5. Start Windchill Directory Server from windows service.
7. Backup
1.
2.
Take back up of PTC folder.

Take back up of Flex Oracle Tables. Refer below command for example
Exp wcadmin/wcadmin@wind file=d:\backup\flexdbaug102012.dmp log
=d:\backup\flexdbaug102012.log statistics=estimate grants=y
3.
Export of LDAP entries.

a)
Navigate to F:\ptc\WindchillDS\server\bat and Click on controlpanel.bat.
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b)
Select Local Server option as shown above.
c)
Click on Export LDIF option. Export LDIF Window browse locate the
backupldif location say D:\backup\exportldifaug2012.ldif.
8. Sample User Credentials

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Oracle User Name: wcadmin

Oracle Password: wcadmin
Windchill UserName: wcadmin
Windchill Password: wcadmin
LDAP Server Administrator Name: cn=Manager
LDAP Server Administrator Password: ldapadmin
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Windchill PDMLink 10.1 Installation......................................................................8

FlexPLM 10.1 M010 Installation..........................................................................32

Restart the Environment.................................................................................... 43

Adding Windchill Directory Server as a Windows service...................................43

Sample User Credentials.................................................................................... 46

4. Select single instance and click on next

6. Select Standard Edition and click next

8. Click on ignore All checkbox and click next.

10.Click close button once the installation is complete.

11.Restart the system.

3. Windchill PDMLink 10.1 Installation

3. Click next to continue.

4. Select I accept and click Next to continue.

5. Select Solution option and click next to continue.

6. Select Windchill PDMLink and click next to continue.

7. Select Thumbnail Generator and Viewable compression Utilities option and

8. Select options of each component as shown above and click next to

9. Review the above screen and click next to continue.

10.Choose the Create option for Database and Database Installation

11.Choose the option as appropriate and click next to continue.

13.Change the base installation folder to D:. Remove default Windchill_10.1 in

16.Review the above screen and click next to continue.

20.Select Next to continue.

24.Review the installation results. If the Installation is success click done to

26.Take a copy of the PTC(D:\ptc) folder as a backup in say

4. FlexPLM 10.1 M010 Installation

Whenever the servers starts or restarts wait until the Method

2. Click Extract to continue.

4. In Windchill shell, navigate to WT_HOME\src\com\lcs\build\installer folder and

5. Select y for configuring apache.

6. Select new for installaion.

7. Enter wcadmin as Windchill administrator user credential.

8. Select y for apache configure from template.

9. Select y for DB schema.

10.Enter db password as: wcadmin

11.Select RFA for library name.

12.Select n as for using different container.

the Method server ready message on the MS console before

18.Select y to load RFA files.

20.Hit Enter to exit installation.

Login into FlexPLM Home page.

Navigate to Administrative Manage Processes Lifecycle Administrator

5. Restart the Environment

6. Adding Windchill Directory Server as a Windows service

2. Select Local Server option as shown above.

3. Under Runtime Options, click on Windows Service. In Window Service

4. After adding successfully Windchill Directory Server to windows service,

Take back up of PTC folder.

Export of LDAP entries.

Select Local Server option as shown above.

8. Sample User Credentials

Oracle User Name: wcadmin

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