Windchill System Admin

Installation and Configuration Overview

• Describe Windchill architecture
• Identify the Windchill deployment and configuration options
• Explain the Windchill installation process
• Manage Windchill services

File Vaulting and Replication

• Explore external file storage architecture
• Identify file vaulting strategies
• Configure file vaults
• Create a vaulting rule
• Explore a distributed data replication architecture
• Identify predictive and ad-hoc replication
• Describe the file server installation process
• Create replication rules
• Create replication schedules

Queues and Visualization Services

• Explore out-of -the-box Windchill queues
• Configure background queues
• Perform maintenance on Windchill queues
• List the components of the Windchill visualization services architecture
• Optimize the visualization system
• Identify publishing queues and jobs
• Identify workflow queues

Maintenance Activities

• Identify the daily, weekly, and monthly activities
• Identify tools and methods to perform maintenance tasks

Tuning and Backup

• Identify Windchill server tuning objectives
• Manage Windchill heap sizes
• Set Windchill cache sizes
• Optimize Wide Area Network (WAN) performance
• Explain Windchill cold and hot backup strategies
• Identify utilities used to perform a database backup
• Perform file vaults backup and recovery
• Perform Windchill Directory Server backup and recovery

Properties and Monitoring

• Manage Windchill properties
• Manage log files and alerts
• Set up the client environment