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 operation

1. linkTuner Webinar
March 20, 2013
Rick Passolt & Jody Zeitler
Fishbowl Solutions, Inc.

2. Agenda
• Intro
• Solution Review
• Demo
• Q&A / Next Steps

3. 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!

4. A Sampling of Our Customers

5. Some Fishbowl Tools
Windchill Implementation
•linkAccess
•pubSchedule
•linkExtract •Utilities for Windchill
•linkLoader •linkTuner
•linkTuner •linkSecurity
Pre-
Implementation Go Live
Migration Sustaining
•Data Clean •linkTuner
Up Tools •pubSchedule

6. linkTuner Overview
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure

7. linkTuner
• Background
• 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”
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure

8. 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

9. 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

10. How linkTuner Works
• 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
• 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.

11. How linkTuner Works – Use Case A
Location “X”
CAD Agent
Solution: linkTuner
Test Data Set “A”
linkTuner
Server Console Location “Y” Windchill
Agent App Server
Location “Z”
Agent
Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

12. How linkTuner Works – Use Case A
Location “X”
CAD Agent
Solution: linkTuner
Test Data Set “A”
linkTuner
Server Console Location “Y” Windchill
Agent App Server
Location “Z”
Agent
Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

13. How linkTuner Works – Use Case A
Location “X”
CAD Agent
Solution: linkTuner
Test Data Set “A”
linkTuner
Server Console Location “Y” Windchill
Agent App Server
Location “Z”
Agent
Measure exact same Benchmark at multiple locations

14. Example Result in Excel
120
111.3
Solution: linkTuner
100
86.2
Total Benchmark Time in Minutes
80
61.9
PDMLink
60
Ilnk 3.x
45.8
43.8
40
29.4
20 16.2
9.6
0
MN AZ Puerto Rico Switzerland
Client Location (Server in MN)

15. How linkTuner Works – Use Case B
Agent
Solution: linkTuner
Test Data Set “B”
linkTuner
Server Console Windchill
Agent App Server
Agent
Mass Load the System Prior to Go Live

16. How linkTuner Works – Use Case C
Solution: linkTuner Measure exact same Benchmark while System is
Under Normal Load
Windchill
App Server
General Usage
linkTuner
Server Console
Agent
Test Data Set “A”

17. How linkTuner Works
• 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. How linkTuner Works

21. Demo

22. Thank You!
• Q&A
Rick Passolt
rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com
(952) 465-3418
sales@fishbowlsolutions.com
Jody Zeitler
jzeitler@fishbowlsolutions.com