Understanding FMS Client Cache (FCC)

FMS Client Cache is a FMS Process that runs on client host. FCC accepts client request over secured pipe connections and submits them to appropriate FMS Server Cache (FSC) process in order to upload or download files. To improve the performance of recently accessed or frequently accessed files, FCC also provides high performance cache (write cache/read cache) on client host (private user-level cache). Write cache contains files uploaded to teamcenter volume. Read cache contains files downloaded from teamcenter volume.

To monitor the local FMS Client Cache (FCC), fccstat utility is used. When fccstat utility is used with status argument, it provides details on running status of FCC process that may be required to troubleshoot an issue. It provides all the details on FCC’s currently active and assigned FSC, offline FSC connections, number of files uploaded and downloaded, number of files in cache, number of client request processed etc. This utility can also be used if there is a need to clear cache (-clear), or if there are changes made to FCC configuration files that needs to be updated to running FCC process (-reconfig) or if the FCC configuration needs to be reloaded completely (-restart). ...  Continue Reading