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Replica Server Method Server log shows "Connection timed out: connect" on start up in WindchillPDMLink

Modified: 27-Oct-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 12.1

Description

  • Replication Failing
  • Cannot complete broadcast configuration for new replica server
  • Failed to open objects if Preference site is set to replica server with below error in replica's MethodServer log  
    ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8010-exec-2] wt.fv.replica  - ReplicaService.doIndirectDownload: IOException encountered during download
org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:356)
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flushByteBuffer(OutputBuffer.java:815)
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.append(OutputBuffer.java:720)
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.writeBytes(OutputBuffer.java:391)
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.write(OutputBuffer.java:369)
               at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.write(CoyoteOutputStream.java:96)
               at wt.servlet.ServletRequestMonitor$CountingOutputStream.write(ServletRequestMonitor.java:2388)
               at wt.servlet.CompressionFilter$GzippingResponse$GzipAsAppropStream.write(CompressionFilter.java:687)
               at wt.fv.replica.StandardReplicaService.doIndirectDownLoad(StandardReplicaService.java:1717)
  • Ad Hoc replication not processing
  • MethodServer.log
ERROR : wt.fv.master wcadmin - replication failed for object wt.fv.FvItem:xxx com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.replication.server.ThreadedReplicationHelperManager-3: wt.fv.FvFileCanNotBeStored: wt.wrmf.transport.WTTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
  • Unable to Upload / Download contents from replica, replica server shows error:
wt.fv.replica  - Problem connecting to host. Message:[java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect]
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:79)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:666)
    at sun.security.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(BaseSSLSocketImpl.java:173)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:463)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:558)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:264)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:367)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:191)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1156)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1050)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:177)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1334)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1309)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:259)
    at wt.fv.replica.StandardReplicaService.getConfigCacheFromMaster(StandardReplicaService.java:1070)
    at wt.fv.replica.StandardReplicaService.access$400(StandardReplicaService.java:153)
    at wt.fv.replica.StandardReplicaService$FetchThread.run(StandardReplicaService.java:1146)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at wt.util.WTThread.run(WTThread.java:421)
  • Replication is failing with Master server:
"wt.objectstorage.exception.ContentFileCanNotBeStoredException: Cannot save: No available Folder found " 
RFS : " java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect"
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