For some reason, My local Vault decided to go wonky this morning, and after 2 restarts and no response form the Autodesk Data Management Server console I started searching for some help. I came up with this great tip for dealing with a laggy ADMS console.
If ADMS just seems to halt on load, or even after you try to pick anything in the console navigation, try the following settings:
- Start the Registry Editor REGEDIT.
- Find this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
- Find the ServicesPipeTimeout If it does not exist (as it did not in mine), then you need to add it. DWORD value (32 bit) named “ServicesPipeTimeout”.
- Change the decimal value of that entry to be 120000. Pick OK, and close the editor.
- Start the Services Manager (msc) and navigate to Autodesk Data Management Job Dispatch service.
- Change the startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start).
- Restart the machine.
When I restarted, ADMS was fine.
I have not completely researched the how’s and why’s of this edit procedure, and why it worked on my machine, but I suspect that there is a very slow-to-start service on my local machine that ADMS is dependent on. ADMS is likely timing out waiting for it, and after that, everything else fails.
Having a Vault guru on the team is great, but sometimes I have to let him sleep and take care of little research like this on my own. I hope this helps someone else.
Cheers!
Credits
Big thanks to Bob Felton for the post titled “How to solve a very slow Start up of ADMS Console on the Vault Server“, at IMAGINiT. You can read it here: http://blogs.rand.com/support/2012/08/start-up-of-adms-console-on-vault-server-is-very-slow.html