If you have difficulty establishing communication with the remote system or if your site requires a particular configuration, you may need to customize the network ODB connector. Use the Advanced tabbed page of the Edit Network ODB Connector dialog box to customize a network ODB connector.
To customize a network ODB connector:
From the main menu bar, select File
Network ODB ConnectorEditconnector name.
From the Edit Network ODB Connector dialog box that appears, click the Advanced tab.
From the Advanced tabbed page, choose how the server will be started.
Choose Automatically start server to indicate that ABAQUS/CAE will start the network ODB server when you start the network ODB connector.
Choose Use manually started server to indicate that you have already started a network ODB server using the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure.
Select the shell that will be used by the local system to execute commands on the network ODB server.
Select rsh to use the remote shell command. The rsh command is provided with Windows and UNIX operating systems. The rsh daemon service must be running on the remote machine.
Select ssh to use the secure shell command. The secure shell command uses identity authentication and encryption when communicating with the server and provides more security than the remote shell command.
The secure shell command is not provided with a standard installation of Windows; you must install and configure the command on your workstation. In contrast, some Linux systems provide only the secure shell command, and the remote shell command is not available. If the secure shell command is not available from your PATH environment variable, you must enter the full path to the command in the ssh path field. The ssh daemon service must be running on the remote machine.
Note: The secure shell command and the remote shell command must be configured so that they do not prompt the user for a password. For more information, see the ABAQUS Online Support System, which is accessible through the MY ABAQUS section of the ABAQUS Home Page at www.abaqus.com.
If you chose Automatically start server to indicate that ABAQUS/CAE will start the network ODB server, perform the following steps:
Choose from the following to specify the port numbers:
Choose Auto-assign port to allow the host and remote systems to establish their own network communication port numbers.
Choose Specify port to force the host and remote systems to use a specified port number. In the Port field that appears, enter the desired port number. The port number must be a valid port number. You cannot use a port number that is reserved by the system or a port that is already in use.
In the Remote ABAQUS execution procedure field, enter the command to run ABAQUS on the remote system. The default command is the command that you used to start the current session of ABAQUS/CAE; however, your site may have a customized command for executing ABAQUS.
In the Server timeout field, enter the network ODB server timeout in minutes. The default value is one day (1440 minutes). The server exits if it does not receive any communication from the client during the time specified. Regardless of this setting, if you started the server using ABAQUS/CAE, the server exits when you end your ABAQUS/CAE session. You can also stop the server by selecting FileNetwork ODB ConnectorStopserver name from the main menu bar.
Click OK to create the network ODB connector and to close the editor. You still need to start the network ODB connector to make it active and to open a remote output database; for more information, see “Managing network ODB connectors,” Section 9.7.5.
If you chose Use manually started server to indicate that you already started the network ODB server from the command line, perform the following steps:
Enter the Port number returned by the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure.
Click OK to create the network ODB connector and to close the editor. You still need to start the network ODB connector to make it active and to open a remote output database; for more information, see “Managing network ODB connectors,” Section 9.7.5.
If you started the server manually from the command line, you can close it using the stop parameter of the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure, or you can wait for the server to timeout. The abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure is described in “Execution procedure for network output database file connector,” Section 3.2.18 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.
