linkTuner™
Simulate Pro/ENGINEER® users in order to load test and measure the performance of your Windchill® PDMLink™ or Pro/INTRALINK® system.
• Can you easily test and benchmark your environment to ensure PDMLink or Pro/INITRALINK are tuned optimally?
• Do you know your hardware requirements for PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK?
• Will you be able to guarantee optimal performance for engineers on PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK?
“We were able to analyze the results from each test and increase the performance by 200% based on our initial configuration settings. Had we not used this tool, we would have crippled the Windchill application on the first day of use and would have quickly lost our trust and support from the engineering users.”
– Brian Vogl, IT-Engineering Design Applications, Daktronics
linkTuner Product Specifications
linkTuner is the only solution that allows you to:
- Simulate dozens of Pro/E users and stress test your system without the time and effort of your engineers.
- Benchmark your PDMLink 9.x or Pro/INTRALINK 8.x vs. your Pro/INTRALINK® 3.4 system.
- Run 7 task types: Search/Info/Browse, Download/Open, Create Plot, Revise, Upload/Check-in, Promote and Delete Revision. (Figure 1)
- Display a relative time breakdown by task in a pie chart. (Figure 2)
- Display the differences between two different test runs in a bar chart. (Figure 3)
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linkTuner Comparative Analysis
Use Case A – A medical device company with facilities around the world was upgrading from Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 to PDMLink 9.x and wanted to benchmark performance between the two environments. They wanted to determine if the improved WAN performance associated with PDMLink negated the need for remote replication servers. The company’s servers were located in
By using linkTuner the customer was able to remotely test and benchmark both the Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 and PDMLink 9.x environments from Minnesota, without the need for any remote engineering resources. After a minimal installation procedure at each site, linkTuner quickly returned performance data that was used to make critical decisions concerning the need for file replication—all in one day.
With linkTuner the medical device company was able to take weeks off of their upgrade and save hours of engineering time, providing an almost immediate ROI for linkTuner.
Use Case B – A leader in providing integrated aftermarket solutions for virtually all makes of turbomachinery was upgrading to PDMLink 9.1. They have two main facilities and needed to run benchmarks for file vault replication performance and tuning. Manual benchmark and tuning techniques would take days or even weeks so they utilized linkTuner to solve their problem.
With linkTuner, the organization was able to quickly compare performance remotely, without engineering resources, and identify that replication plays a critical role in performance. Although, one performance indicator was indentified, there was still significant room for improvement. With Fishbowl’s tuning expertise, the organization was able to drastically improve performance with and without replication for all PDMLink instances.
linkTuner allowed the organization to quickly tune their PDMLink system at all locations and ensure the support of their engineers.
