The webinar introduced linkTuner, a tool from Fishbowl Solutions that simulates CAD user activity across a network to benchmark and measure the performance of a PDM system. LinkTuner automates the process of testing searches, revisions, downloads and other tasks to provide empirical data on system performance with different versions of the software. It can test the same benchmark at multiple locations simultaneously or load test a system prior to going live. The results are logged with granularity to analyze performance by task, user and over multiple runs. A demo then showed how linkTuner works.

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

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

7. • 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

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. • 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Example Result in Excel
Solution: linkTuner

15. 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

16. 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

17. • 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

18. • 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

19. • 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

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