Create client

To be able to work with PPM you must create at least one client after the installation by means of PPM Customizing Toolkit (CTK).

Using clients, you can configure and manage your PPM projects. A client provides you with all the configuration files and applications required to extract data from your source system and configure it for further processing. The prepared client-specific data is saved in a dedicated PPM repository, where it is available to PPM for analysis under the same client name.

A client is made up of the following elements.

Procedure under Windows

  1. Start the PPM and infrastructure components by clicking Start PPM Core 9.9 in the Windows program group Software AG > Start Servers.
  2. Start CTK by clicking PPM Customizing Toolkit 9.9 in the Windows program group Software AG > Administration.

    The CTK start page with the client overview is displayed.

  3. Click the Create client button in the Client overview.

The wizard guides you through the individual steps.

After creating a client, an individual link for each client is available in the program folders Software AG > Start Servers > Start PPM instances and Software AG > Stop Servers > Stop PPM instances. Use the links Start <client> and Stop <client> to start or stop client and analysis servers independently of CTK. <client> indicates the client name.

Procedure under Linux

  1. Run the script start_ppm.sh. The script is located in the directory <installation directory>/ppmmashzone/server/.

    The infrastructure components and PPM components start.

  2. Run the script runppmctk. The script is located in the directory <installation directory>/ppmmashzone/server/bin/agentLocalRepo/.unpacked/ppm-client-run-prod-<version>-runnable.zip/ppm/ctk/bin/.

    The CTK start page with the client overview is displayed.

  3. Click the Create client button in the Client overview.

The wizard guides you through the individual steps.