What's Good About ADW’s Configuration Manager? The Secret's in the 16.5 Release!

The Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) Configuration Manager application is designed for an administrator to manage the ADW environment including:

• Server / Client Installation Configuration
• Company and Site configuration
• Server status
• Metrics Dashboard

It provides a single location where the ECAD environment can be managed and reported on. In ADW 16.5 the focus has been on:

• Site Management
• Metrics Dashboard

Read on for more details …

Site Management

•    Ability to navigate and edit to the majority of ADW setup files
•    See differences with the default installation files
•    Manage and create workspaces
•    Manage tool and library distribution configurations
•    Apply changes to multiple sites
•    See differences between sites
•    Manage Allegro env files



Project Workspace Configuration

• Enable which default workspaces are active for the site
  • Most customers do not need the default workspaces
  • They create thier own workspaces derived from these
• Enable the easy creation of new workspaces
  • From predefined default workspaces
  • From already created custom workspaces
• Changes in the workspace configuration impact what the users see in project creation

Tool and Library Distribution Configuration

• Easy access to all configuration files
• Clear indication of
  • File being edited
  • Default value from installation
  • Highlighted difference from default
  • Tabular for easy sorting and filtering
• Easy to apply changes

Site Differences

• Allows comparison of two sites
  • Select two sites (Ctrl for multi-select)
  • RMB> Compare
• Easy highlight of what is difference between sites
• Ability to merge differences
• Configurable merge tool
  • Set in Configuration  Manager
  • Tool Configuration> Common Tools> System Console & Utilities

I look forward to your comments!

Jerry "GenPart" Grzenia