How to remotely access another PC ?

[ufsaa2022]

Hello ,

I would like to remotely connect to another PC where Ansys is installed and run it from a PC that does not have Ansys installed.
I wonder if I can just enter "launch_mapdl(ip='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')" or if other settings are needed.
If I just run "launch_mapdl(ip='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')", an error will occur.

OSError: Unable to connect to Mechanical instance at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:50052.

Thank you :)

[germa89]

Hi @ufsaa2022

I am not sure if you are using PyMAPDL (bit launch_mapdl) or using pymechanical (from the error message).

Anyways, if you refer to PyMAPDL, PyMAPDL cannot start an MAPDL instance in a remote PC. You need to launch it manually in that PC, and then connect to it from PyMAPDL.

For instance in the remote PC with ip XXX.YY.ZZ.WW issue:

/ansys_inc/v232/ansys/bin/ansys232 -grpc

Then from your laptop (without Ansys, but in the same network as the other one) you launch python and type:

>>> from ansys.mapdl.core import launch_mapdl
>>> mapdl = launch_mapdl(ip="XXX.YY.ZZ.WW")

I hope it helps.

[ufsaa2022]

Thank you for your reply.
I'm using PyMAPDL.
I mistakenly thought remote connection was possible.
Thank you.

[germa89]

Remote connection is possible. What is not possible is to use the local PyMAPDL to launch an MAPDL instance in a remote machine. :)