- [Instructor] If you're watching these videos
out of order,
before you watch this video
it's important that you watch the previous video
on how to install PDM on your server.
We pick up from the last steps of that install,
which is started automatically.
Alright, so now that we have
SOLIDWORKS PDM standard installed on our server host,
we now have to install the archives server.
So let's start walking through the install wizard for that.
Here, as we've discussed before,
where we put this root folder is very important.
So this is where SOLIDWORKS PDM
is going to store your vaults and all your files in the vault.
Again, it's very important that we choose
an area that has a lot of space on it.
If you're a small company,
it doesn't have to be that big.
But if you're working with a lot of engineers
and you're going to be producing a lot of data,
it's really important
that you get a very big server space storage location
to be able to handle all the data,
so that you don't have to move this vault
once you've completed your install.
Alright, so we're going to leave it in the default position
and go to next.
You'll notice here
that it says that the path doesn't exist yet
because it's creating the new install,
so we're going to go ahead and create it.
Here it's prompting us
to create a default admin user password.
So for this installation,
because we're not creating a real vault,
I'm not going to enter any password.
I'm just going to leave it blank.
Now it's prompting us again
that I have not entered a password,
am I sure that I want to do this?
In typical situations,
you would add a password.
You would document that password
and make sure that you have it and your IT person has it.
But again, for ease of use,
I'm not going to use any passwords and leave it bkank,
which is an option,
especially if you're working by yourself
and you don't need it password protected.
But it's often a good idea to use password protection
for at a minimum security reasons.
We're going to go ahead and click yes.
You'll notice here that it's brought in
our SQL user log in information.
So this is the point where we're connecting
our archive server with the SQL server we created
during our PDM install.
So going back to my references
for the SQL server password I made,
I'm going to go ahead and put that in now.
Alright, I'll go ahead and click next.
And now you'll see,
on this specific network
there's all kinds of users and groups that are available.
So I'm going to go ahead and keep the default and move forward.
In your situation,
you'll see your local workgroup or local network.
But in this situation,
I'm already pre-calibrated
to make the right selections for groups.
Alright, now I've successfully configured
the archive server.
Go ahead and click finish.
And that completes the archive server installation.
Now that we've completed
both our SOLIDWORKS PDM and archive server installation,
we have to go ahead and restart the server.
Now obviously as part of any installation or maintenace,
you want to make sure everybody's off of your server
and you should've done this before this whole process.
I assume any admins are familiar enough with this process
to know that it's good to do these projects after hours.
Now we're going to go ahead and restart
through our web connection
the machine that we just did the installation on.
So you'll notice that I've lost my remote connection
while the machine restarts.
Okay, now that we've restarted our server,
let's reestablish our connection
so we can continue working.
I'm going to go ahead and start my remote session back up.
Now back on the other machine,
let's verify that we've everything installed.
I'm going to go to our control panel.
Take a look at what we've got here.
You'll notice that now we have installed
SOLIDWORKS PDM Server
with what they call the blueberry icon.
And we also have SQL Server browser for SQL Server 2014.
So this shows us we've installed
those two sections at least correctly for now.
Let's go back and check and see
if the archive server is running correctly as well.
Check my archive server configuration.
And yes, it seems like the server is running fine.
Right now, we don't have any vaults created,
so nothings showing up.
But we can see that the server tool is running.
We're going to go ahead and close that.
And this concludes
our PDM database and archive server installation.