[Paraview] reverse connection

[Scott, W Alan]

On the client side, create a server called Manual.  Another option is to
create a default_servers.pvsc file, and place it in lib/paraview-3.2.
Put the following text into this file:

<Server name="Manual" owner="user" resource="csrc://localhost" >
 <ManualStartup/>
</Server>


Client side:
  paraview --server=Manual

Our servers use a qsub to get some nodes, then mpiexec paraview server
on each of these nodes.  Here is the pvserver string:

Server side (on each node):

pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering -rc -ch=${REMHOST_NAME} 

alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Moreland, Kenneth 
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 12:16 PM
To: Weiguang Guan
Cc: Berk Geveci; paraview at paraview.org; Scott, W Alan
Subject: RE: [Paraview] reverse connection

I always use the ParaView GUI or XML to specify the client connections.
In the XML, you change the resource to start with "csrc:" instead of
"cs:".  I don't know how to do it from the command line.  Perhaps Berk
or Alan can speak up here.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weiguang Guan [mailto:guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:56 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: Berk Geveci; paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] reverse connection
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> 
> > I can think of a couple of things that might have gone wrong.
> >
> > 1. Are you sure you told the client to do a reverse connection as 
> > well as the server?  If you did not tell the client (the paraview 
> > executable) to do a reverse connection, then both sides will try to 
> > connect to the other and no one will be listening for a connection.
> 
> I didn't start paraview client as -rc is not a valid option for the 
> client. How to tell the client to do reverse connection?
> 
> Weiguang