Creating a New Site
A site, also known as a cluster, is a group of hosts with one URL that can be accessed independently or as a single unit. A site can take a single work unit (an HTTP request or RMI method call) and distribute that request to one of many Windchill servers.
When you click in the Site Management window, the New Site window appears.
1. Enter the following data:
Field
Description
Site Name
The site name must be unique. The string is not case-sensitive and cannot include spaces. The name should contain only letters, numbers, hyphen, and underscores.
URL
The URL is the value of the wt.httpgw.url.anonymous property in the wt.properties file of the site that you are creating. It is the URL of the anonymous gateway for the Windchill site.
For a file server site, enter the URL. The URL must allow the main site to access the file server site.
Site Type
The options available are Main and File Server. This is a required field. Only one Main site is allowed.
Context
* 
This field is for the site and organizational levels only.
Click Select to access the Pick Context window, which lists all possible contexts. Select a context and then click OK.
Description
You can enter a description of the site.
Principal
Click Select to access the Find Participants window. Use the fields Types, Name, and Service on the window to select a principal for the new site.
Site Proximity
You can move the sites into the order of proximity to the current site being created or updated.
The left box contains a list of all the sites. You can move the sites from this box to the right box using >> and <<. The box on the right side indicates the proximity of the other sites to the new site. The site at the top of the list has highest proximity to the new site. You can move a site up or down the list with Move Up, Move Down, Move Top, and Move Bottom.
2. Click OK.
The new site appears in List of Sites table in the Site Management window. For main sites, a space appears to hold the initial date of the access key after it is generated.
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