It's relatively quiet in this forum group, but i'm hoping there are a few who can help clarify a question about the Revit Central Server (RCS) and Local Server (RLS) relationship. The relationship is described as a hub-and-spoke (star topology) system. Mesh topologies are not yet supported.
So here is our scenario....we are attempting to setup up an RS relationship with another firm. Again, unsupported, but entirely doable. The other firms server would host the RCS and our server in one of our offices (office B) would be the local....for sake of discussion, let's call it RLS1 and the other office's central server as RCS-X. All is fine so far.
Now....if we start up a RS project in our main office (office A) with our central server RCS-A, can our remote office B's local server RLS1 dialog with both central servers?
My assumption with the hub & spoke system is that it cannot.
The real world implications are that if we intend to work on shared projects both between separate firms, and also between our own firm's internal offices, we'll need to purchase additional servers and OS licenses.
What is throwing me off however, is the existence of a Windows User Environment Variable, e.g. REVIT2011SERVER, which sets the location of the central server. Since it is a user variable, i'm inclined to believe that the pointers to the central server can be changed at will and is not dependent on the hub/spoke setup. I haven't ventured into the registry yet to see what is actually happening. But that's where it starts going over my head.....
Hoping someone has been down this road and have some input.....
Thanks all,
Jon
So here is our scenario....we are attempting to setup up an RS relationship with another firm. Again, unsupported, but entirely doable. The other firms server would host the RCS and our server in one of our offices (office B) would be the local....for sake of discussion, let's call it RLS1 and the other office's central server as RCS-X. All is fine so far.
Now....if we start up a RS project in our main office (office A) with our central server RCS-A, can our remote office B's local server RLS1 dialog with both central servers?
My assumption with the hub & spoke system is that it cannot.
The real world implications are that if we intend to work on shared projects both between separate firms, and also between our own firm's internal offices, we'll need to purchase additional servers and OS licenses.
What is throwing me off however, is the existence of a Windows User Environment Variable, e.g. REVIT2011SERVER, which sets the location of the central server. Since it is a user variable, i'm inclined to believe that the pointers to the central server can be changed at will and is not dependent on the hub/spoke setup. I haven't ventured into the registry yet to see what is actually happening. But that's where it starts going over my head.....
Hoping someone has been down this road and have some input.....
Thanks all,
Jon
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