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Platform Common Services Reinstall question

Phil Wood

Hey guys!

So, we had an issue (long story) at a customer and long story short, we need to reinstall the PCS services to get things back to normal.  Following the user guide, it tells you WHAT msi to run, and that's great.  However, when you get to the installer portion, it gives you two options; the PCS Runtime, and the PCS Service Repositories, which is de-selected by default. 

My question is - when should you install just the runtime vs both?  

Thanks much

-Phil

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    I think I answered my own question.  Looking in with Modify instead of install:

    GR: Service Repository included

    everything else - just runtime. 

    Thanks Phil! Great answer.  You['re welcome, Phil. 

  • 0 in reply to Phil Wood

    Great question Phil! And answer!

    Good to see you both got that sorted out.

    What I have learned there should only be ONE PCS Service Repository in your network, the rest of nodes should be Runtime only.

    This was stated by several Techsupport engineers in several of our PCS related support cases. Would really like to gain deeper understanding on why and how this works, and the effects if you do this anyway.

    Since trainingrooms don't cause my network to break (where each node has their own PCS Service Repository), I would guess it is only true for a group of nodes using the same System Management Server. Would also be interesting to know, what happens to this if you set up a redundant pair of System Management Server,  would that require both to have the PCS service Repository or are they not dependent. If not, and there should only be one, what happens to the system if this node goes offline.

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