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Configuration

Dominik Wojciechowski edited this page May 9, 2020 · 2 revisions

Prerequisites

  1. Plugin Installed
  2. Addon running on remote server (or locally)
  3. Open port 4040 on remote server (or locally)
  4. The hostname is valid and may be reached from the local machine.

Configuration

  1. On the right side, you may find the tab with the name "Windchill" and yellow icon. Click on it.
  2. Now, you should be able to see the following panel:

pluginPane

  1. This panel contains a button which in this example has a name "Scanning Stopped", on click action will be performed which will enable scanning. And this button label and icon will be changing according to the site state.

  2. Click on Configure. You should be able to see windows similar to this: configurationPane

No. Description Example
1 Protocol on which site scanning will be performed http / https
2 Valid hostname on which site is available from the system where IDE is google.com
3 Port number where service is exposed 80
4 That string will be appended to hostname to ping site under subpath /Example/test
5 Exact resulting URL which will be pinged to check status http://google.com/Example/test
6 If the site supports basic auth, login of user exampleLogin
7 If the site supports basic auth, password of user secretPassword
8 Path where Windchill logs are stored /app/test/logs
10 One of possible places to define WT_HOME /app/test
9 / 11 Remote file/folder pickers
12 Refresh rate which defines how often check if the site is up will be performed 1000
13 Some remote actions may take a while to perform, or connection is very poor, and after that time timeout will be thrown 5000
14 Port on which communication with server addon will be performed. Note: if you change this value, the addon has to be run with option -p <CHANGED_PORT> 4040
15 It is possible to hide navigation buttons, (PLM section next to run configurations) Navigation and Pane
16 It is possible to control the status of actions with the status of System which is defined with options 1-7 Enabled
  1. On OK settings will be saved, and the plugin will be able to connect to the remote server.