Configuring the Worker Agent in a Windchill Cluster

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The WVS Worker Agent has a "host" parameter that can be used for cluster configurations. This parameter must be manually added to the [agent] section of the agent.ini file on the slave machines in the cluster (for example, those machines not running the Background Method Server). The value of the host parameter would be the hostname of the machine that runs the background method server, and hence the Worker Agent.

The "host" parameter enables the Worker Agent Administration pages, running on Foreground MethodServers, to connect to the Background MethodServer (BGMS), which might be running on a different host machine, by identifying the host name of the machine running the BGMS.

The property publish.tempuploaddir is set to a common directory between all the method servers in the cluster, in the case of creating representations from local data only. See Windchill Visualization Service Properties for details.