ProjectWise has historically allowed the user to configure complex routing configurations, in order to allow for external access to ProjectWise resources across a corporate firewall, as well as to allow the caching of CAD data so that the data is geographically closer to the users, removing the need for the users to access large files over a potentially slow WAN.
However, as the complexity of the routing configurations grows, the ability to determine by what route a given client contacts a server grows equally complex. Often, it is necessary to dig through configuration files on many machines in order to determine the route. Additionally, it has historically been practically impossible for a client machine to determine the overall latency for a given route.
What is needed is a tool to display both information about what ProjectWise servers are transited in a given route, and the latency between those servers.
This tool, when run from a client machine, will allow the user to determine the route to a given endpoint ProjectWise server, the latency between each hop in the route, and the caching configuration on each server that is transited. If a connection cannot be made to a hop (either due to misconfiguration of the ProjectWise route, or a broken network link between machines), this tool will also report the last node that was successfully contacted, making it easier to determine the cause of networking issues.
Usage:
Usage: pwping [-d display-name] [-h hops] [-n count] [-t timeout] target_name
Options:
-d display-name: Display name of the endpoint datasource to trace route to; name will be resolved via normal ProjectWise DNS.
If this switch is specified, the target_name command argument must be omitted.
-h hops: Maximum number of servers to transit on the way. Defaults to the end of the route.
-n count: Number of ping requests to send between hops.
Defaults to 1.
-t timeout: Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.
Defaults to 5000ms.
-c: Display caching configuration information
Examples:
For this example, we shall assume that the server PW_INTSRV has a misconfigured route to server PW_FILESTOR. Thus, the output from pwping for each successive hop would be:
[c:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin]pwping pw_gateway
pwping: INFO - Tracing route to host 'pw_gateway'
pwping: INFO - Hop: 1 Host: pw_gateway Address: 10.10.10.191 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 6ms AvgTtl: 125
[c:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin]pwping pw_intsrv
pwping: INFO - Tracing route to host 'pw_intsrv'
pwping: INFO - Hop: 1 Host: pw_gateway Address: 10.10.10.191 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 3ms AvgTtl: 125
pwping: INFO - Hop: 2 Host: pw_intsrv Address: 10.10.10.190 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 66ms AvgTtl: 128
[c:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin]pwping pw_filestor
pwping: INFO - Tracing route to host 'pw_filestor'
pwping: INFO - Hop: 1 Host: pw_gateway Address: 10.10.10.191 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 2ms AvgTtl: 125
pwping: INFO - Hop: 2 Host: pw_intsrv Address: 10.10.10.190 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 5ms AvgTtl: 128
pwping: ERROR - Failed to ping host 'pw_filestor': no route to next hop
In this example, we shall ask the utility to display any caching server configuration information it finds as it transits the various servers in the route:
[c:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin]pwping -c pw_intsrv
pwping: INFO - Hop: 1 Host: pw_gateway Address: 10.10.10.191 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 8ms AvgTtl: 125
pwping: INFO - Caching enabled on host 'pw_gateway' : Cache Path: 'c:\pw_cache\files' Cache Limit 200 MB
pwping: INFO - Hop: 2 Host: pw_intsrv Address: 10.10.10.190 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 6ms AvgTtl: 128
Next, we shall trace a route to a ProjectWise integration server based on a datasource's display-name value. In this example, a datasource with the display-name value of "PCJ_TESTROUTE" is configured on server PW_INTSRV.
[c:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin]pwping -d"PCJ_TESTROUTE"
pwping: INFO - Hop: 1 Host: pw_gateway Address: 10.10.10.191 PW Version: 08.09.03.31 AvgTime: 7ms AvgTtl: 125
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