Starting Remote Servers from the Command Line

Starting a Server without a Client

The server can be started on a remote machine using a remote shell such as rsh or ssh in the same way as any other command. For example, using ssh:

ssh user@myremotemachine starccm+ -server

Make sure that remote shell access is permitted and configured.

To specify that a particular simulation file, in this example file.sim, be opened:

ssh user@myremotemachine starccm+ -server <absolute_pathname>/file.sim

Make sure that file.sim is in a path accessible from myremotemachine (the sim file must be readable by the server), and that the appropriate version of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is being started on myremotemachine.

If you wish to use a version of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ other than the one to which your $PATH environment variable points, provide the absolute pathname:

ssh user@myremotemachine <absolute_pathname>/starccm+ -server <absolute_pathname>/file.sim

Using a Client When Starting a Server

To start a local client (in this example Windows) along with a remote server:

starccm+ -rsh ssh -on user@myremotemachine <absolute_pathname>/file.sim

• The client starts locally, then attempts to start the server remotely. The Output window includes something like the following:

  Starting remote server: ssh user@myremotemachine -n -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes

  starccm+ -on user@myremotemachine -server <absolute_pathname>/file.sim

• The -rsh command is instructing the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ client in the above example to use ssh.
• The -on is only relevant for the following purposes:
  • In parallel—it is used to specify the hosts to run workers on.
  • In serial—it tells the client where to start a serial server.

You can also specify the path where Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is installed:

"<STAR-CCM+_INSTALL_DIR>\starccm+" -rsh ssh -on user@myremotemachine <absolute_pathname>/file.sim