PDXpert PLM Software Installation Guide

Installation overview

This guide covers detailed requirements, procedures and best practices for installing the most recent release of the PDXpert Application Server and PDXpert clients. Contact us if you need to install an older PDXpert release.

The PDXpert software installation consists of two components:

• The PDXpertServer setup file¹
  • Creates a PDXpertClient setup file on the computer's Desktop;
  • Downloads and installs a free edition of Microsoft SQL database server that contains your product information;
  • Installs the PDXpert Application Server, which manages database and library configurations, and provides database connection information to the client application; and
  • In releases 7.0 and higher, automatically installs a PDXpert client.
• The PDXpertClient setup file installs PDXpert, which provides the user experience and executes the application business rules.

In a single-user installation, these components are installed on one computer. Most installations, however, will have one computer that acts as database and file management server, and other computers that perform as clients.

Installing the PDXpert application requires these steps:

• Run the server-side installation program on your server computer. This installs Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition ("SSEE"), installs the PDXpert Application Server, and initializes the starting PDXpert database. It also installs a PDXpert client and creates the PDXpert client-side installer that you'll use on each remote workstation.
• Run the client-side installation program at each remote workstation where you want to access the PDXpert application.

The installers automatically detect whether your Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit, and will install the appropriate PDXpert applications.

The PDXpert client application can be installed on the server computer, even in a multi-user environment. However, to ensure adequate performance for both the local user and the network users, your server computer should have a configuration that's significantly better than the recommended minimum.

Notes

1. Downloaded installation file names always include a unique numeric engineering release identifier. This guide typically refers to the actual file (for example PDXpertServer-R17204.exe) as simply PDXpertServer.