[Paraview] Paraview Client/Server

[Amy Squillacote]

At 01:09 PM 1/10/2006, Randall Hand wrote:
>Well, modifying the PVX file such as you've described doesn't seem to work.
>
><?xml version="1.0" ?>
><pvx>
>   <Option Name="reverse-connection" Value=" 
> <http://meteor.erdc.hpc.mil>meteor.erdc.hpc.mil" />

The above XML element should be <Option Name="client-host" 
Value="<http://meteor.erdc.hpc.mil>meteor.erdc.hpc.mil" />.  (That 
was a typo in my previous e-mail.)  You'll also need an XML element 
specifying that you want to reverse the connection: <Option 
Name="reverse-connection" />.

>   <Process Type="client">
>     <Machine Name="<http://meteor.erdc.hpc.mil>meteor.erdc.hpc.mil" />
>   </Process>
>   <Process Type="render-server" />
>   <Process Type="data-server">
>     <Machine Name="<http://prism.erdc.hpc.mil>prism.erdc.hpc.mil" />
>   </Process>
></pvx>
>
>I get the same identical error about connecting to localhost when I 
>start pvdataserver .  As for the command line, as I stated in the 
>email that does work, aside from wanting to do the rendering where 
>the DAtaserver is.  So again, how do I get the Dataserver on Prism, 
>but Rendering & Client on Meteor?
>
>Just an observation, but a "strings * | grep render-server" comes up 
>with nothing (aside from the command-line arguments) on the linux 
>packages distributed via the website, but the compilation that I did 
>on our Irix shows a "render-server" line right around the "client" 
>and "data-server" lines, right next to a vtkPVOptionsXMLParser.  Is 
>the render-server somehow disabled in that release?  I'm currently 
>attempting to compile it myself on the linux system.
>
>On 1/10/06, Amy Squillacote 
><<mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com>amy.squillacote at kitware.com> wrote:
>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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>
>
>--
>Randall Hand
>Visualization Scientist,
>ERDC-MSRC Vicksburg, MS
>Homepage: <http://www.yeraze.com>http://www.yeraze.com
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