Article - CS43769

How to create additional Publishing Queues for multiple instances of CAD workers to execute jobs in parallel in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 30-May-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 8.0 to 13.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 8.0 to 13.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 8.0 to 12.0
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
  • PTC Arbortext Content Manager 8.0 to 12.0
  • Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • If multiple CAD workers, or instances thereof, are configured for a Windchill PDMLink system then additional publishing queues must be created so that the CAD workers will execute jobs in parallel
  • How to approach configuring multiple PublisherQueues?
  • How to increase publishing throughput and performance using multiple WVS PublisherQueues
  • When a publish job hangs or gets stuck in an EXECUTING state in PublisherQueue1, all other publish jobs have to wait for it to complete, before publishing proceeds
  • Publish speed does not increase after adding additional visualization service worker
  • A lot of publish jobs are waiting in publish queue, but only 1 worker is working in worker agent management processing by publishqueue1. Is it possible to make all workers do publish job simultaneity?
  • How to create new publish queues for visualization services or for additional workers?
  • Additional worker is unable to get jobs to publish
  • Additional workers remain idle and do not take jobs for publishing
  • How to connect 1 Windchill application server to 2 CAD worker machines and manage publishing load?
 
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