Modify the System Name and ID
Scenario
You are setting up a distributed system using two projects that have the same System name or System ID. The projects that you want to set up in distribution can have the following conditions:
- Newly created projects (with default the System name and System ID)
- Restored and upgraded projects (for example, from a previous version)
- Projects created using the project templates that are available on your distribution media
NOTE:
Do not to change System name and/or System ID after you configure projects in distribution. Otherwise, you will not be able to work with the partner system in distribution. See Troubleshooting the Distributed System.
To work in a distributed environment, the System name and System ID associated with the project must be unique. Therefore, you want to modify the System name and System ID of one of the projects that you want to configure in distribution, using the following procedure.
- You have a linked an HDB to the project whose System name or System ID you want to modify and then you have started the project.
- You have no relevant data in temporary HD2 files.
- The project is stopped and the distribution is disabled.
- Ensure that the port numbers of the project whose system name and system ID you are about to save are not in use., that is the port numbers are unique.
- In the SMC tree, select Projects > [project].
- Click Change System Info
.
- In the Server Project Information expander, change the default values by entering a unique system name and system ID.
- Click Save Project
.
- A message displays if the selected history database for the project is already linked to another project.
- Click OK to link the selected history database to this project. This internally saves the project data in the selected history database.
- A confirmation message displays.
- Click OK.
NOTE: Since the system details are changed, you must align all linked the web applications on Client/FEP with the changed system settings of the linked Server project.
- The system details are updated.
As a next step, you need to start the project.
NOTE:
In Desigo CC, several components such as graphics, Macros, Scopes, and so on store the system name and system ID internally. Some components such as Reporting, store this system information in the xml file format. History database stores the system information in the History database associated with the project. On changing the system name or system ID of the project, these components are updated with the new information.
For example, when you change the system name of a project that has an already linked History database, on saving the project updated system name or system ID or both are aligned in the linked HDB.
Similarly, when to a project you link an HDB, that is already linked to another project having different system name, on saving the project a confirmation message displays and on not confirming the Linked HDB state displays in red as system name mismatch with the project.
