Set up and troubleshoot Vault ADMS

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Getting started with the "Vault" section,

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we're going to start by validating the Vault ADMS Console and beginning that configuration.

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There's some validation and some additional steps that need to be taken from the ADMS Console to utilize factory design utilities.

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So I'm going to go ahead and launch my ADMS Console.

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If you are running on a UAC enabled system,

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you will get the message that I just received that says you do not have permission or access denied.

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I'm going to go ahead and "OK" that, right click and I'm going to do "Run as administrator" to explicitly run this as an administrator.

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This application does need administrative rights to start, due to database access among other things.

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So, this has opened in the background. I'm going to click back.

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I have no password defined because this is a demo environment, but go ahead and let that finish loading.

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And the size of your "Vault" database does dictate how long this will take to load,

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because while it is loading, it is querying database and getting statistical information,

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which you will see shortly after the "Vault" loads.

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Okay, so my "Vault's" just finished loading,

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and you can see a bit of the statistical information that I was talking about it calculating.

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I do have a large database on here at the moment. So you'll see that my database size is fairly sizable.

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And I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to start by creating a "Vault."

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Now, when you are utilizing factory design utilities, you need to utilize a factory design configuration file.

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So to do that, I am going to create a "Vault."

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If I right click on "Vaults" and I choose "Create," I am going to just call this one "Test" for demonstration purposes.

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And then I am going to just leave the "Default File Store Location" because I am not going to be utilizing this "Vault."

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I'm just creating it for demonstration purposes.

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Normally, you would want to select a File Store Location that is different than a system drive such as the C drive.

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And ideally a location that has some kind of hard drive redundancy as well.

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I'm going to choose "Use Configuration." This is the important piece of this validation step or set up.

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And then under "Configuration," I am going to choose "Factory."

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From there, it is going to load this factory configuration file, which comes along with the installation of "Vault."

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And you can see -- basically if you installed "Vault" on "C," it would be "C\ProgramFiles,"

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and a very similar string.

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With all of that in place the factory configuration, you can go ahead and hit "OK."

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If you're curious about this file, you can go to that location, and it contains the configuration information.

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I'm going to hit "OK" there.

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And the creation does take a little bit longer, the more sizable databases you have as well,

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but you should hopefully see, "Vault" "Test" was created successfully.

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Obviously, you don't want to call yours necessarily "Test," unless you are doing some testing on it and intend to discard at a later date,

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because there's not really an easy function to change the "Vault" name.

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All right. And that is how you can set up the ADMS Console or the Vault itself.

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This is a troubleshooting "Vault" step and can be skipped for the most part.

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But for those that are interested, I have launched my "Vault" application, my ADMS Console, and it does not seem to be responding.

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I run "Vault" on my laptop, for demonstration purposes and whatnot.

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So, what I have done is I have pulled up my services because I suspected my sequel service was not running.

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And if you bring up services, you can go down into the SQL section in that,

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and you want to look for the "AUTODESKVAULT" instance.

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This is "AUTODESKVAULT" instance.

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If you have a additional instance or other instances, they may have a name or there's such a thing as a default instance,

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which does not have a name.

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"Vault" always needs to run in the "AUTODESKVAULT" instance. So I'm going to go ahead and hit "Start" there.

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But before I do that, I'm going to kill off my ADMS Console.

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So bring up "Task Manager" and I'm going to locate ADMS Console, which is "Autodesk Data Management Server."

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And I'm going to "End Task" on it, that'll disappear.

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Now, I can go ahead and hit "Play" on that service.

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For the moment, I'm going to go ahead and bring up the agent as well and the browser is not running.

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I'm going to start that myself as well.

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The one that is most important is this "SQL Server."

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I should not necessarily need to do an IIS reset, but as an additional troubleshooting step, I'm going to go ahead and do that.

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So if I type in "CMD" from my "Start" menu,

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I can right click and do a "Run as administrator" from the command prompt.

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It's going to give me a "User Account Control" message, or UAC message. I'm going to hit "Yes" to that.

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I'm going to hit "IIS reset," just like that. Hit "Enter." It'll try to do a stop and then a start.

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If you need to stop IIS for any reason, such as you're going to be doing an upgrade and you don't want anybody accessing the system,

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you could do an iisreset /stop.

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So iisreset /stop and you can do that, that will stop your IIS services.

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And, in reverse, hitting up arrow will bring up my last command here.

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I can change this to start and explicitly just do a start and stop that way.

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IIS reset will bring the IIS services down if they're running and it will start them up if they're not.

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So typically that is the easiest path.

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Hopefully, you found this informative.