[Paraview] Paraview Client/Server

[Amy Squillacote]

At 12:18 PM 1/10/2006, Randall Hand wrote:
>So I've dumbed mine situation down to a simpler case, just to try & 
>get this to work. I want to run a Data Server on an SGI Irix (named 
>Prism) and do all the rendering & client on a linux machine (named Meteor).
>
> From the command line, if I do
>   On Irix: pvdataserver -rc --client-host=meteor
>   On Linux: pvclient -rc --data-server-host=prism
>
>It starts, but the Irix machine wants to do the rendering, which 
>fails because I don't have an X display  (I'm just SSH'ed in remotely).
>
>Using a PVX file like so (named "dual.pvx"):
><?xml version="1.0" ?>
><pvx>
>   <Option Name="reverse-connection" />
>   <Process Type="client">
>     <Machine Name="<http://meteor.erdc.hpc.mil>meteor.erdc.hpc.mil" />
>   </Process>
>   <Process Type="data-server">
>     <Machine Name="<http://prism.erdc.hpc.mil>prism.erdc.hpc.mil" />
>   </Process>
></pvx>
>
>And then doing the following:
>   On Linux: pvclient dual.pvx
>   On Irix: pvserver dual.pvx or pvdataserver dual.pvx
>
>The client starts just fine on Linux, and goes into the waiting 
>state (because of the Reverse Connection).  But the server always 
>fails with the following error:
>[11:14:32am]% pvserver dual.pvx
>Connect to localhost:11111
>ERROR: In 
>/viz/home/rhand/src/paraview-2.4.2/VTK/Parallel/vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx, 
>line 521
>vtkSocketCommunicator (1622f3a8): Can not connect to localhost on port 11111
>
>
>ERROR: In 
>/viz/home/rhand/src/paraview-2.4.2/Servers/Common/vtkPVClientServerModule.cxx, 
>line 573
>vtkPVClientServerModule (161f4330): Server error: Could not connect 
>to the client. localhost 11111
>
>ERROR: In 
>/viz/home/rhand/src/paraview-2.4.2/Servers/Common/vtkPVClientServerModule.cxx, 
>line 583
>vtkPVClientServerModule (161f4330): No GUIHelper set, can not exit 
>application

The default host (--client-host, in this case) is localhost. You 
either need to specify --client-host=client_host_name on the server 
command line or add it to the .pvx file: <Option 
Name="reverse-connection" Value=client_host_name/>.

>I have no idea why it's trying to connect to localhost.  I get the 
>same error whether I use pvserver or pvdataserver.
>
>--
>Randall Hand
>Visualization Scientist,
>ERDC-MSRC Vicksburg, MS
>Homepage: <http://www.yeraze.com>http://www.yeraze.com
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