In our lab, we use a Red Hat 6 running HFSS 19 to do some antenna simulations. Getting this thing to work can be difficult, especially for non linux people (most people). In the future hopefully they just put windows on this machine, it’s a Xeos with lots of power so the hardware is worth keeping around.
Anyway, from May until this November when the license expires, to get HFSS running you have to restart the license server first. In HFSS 19 this is a session that connects to the server through your browser. To trigger this, use in bash:
cd /
cd ./ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/
(use su or sudo) ./start_lmcenter
At this point it will do something and get stuck… so use control+c to kill that process and try to start the license manager center again. This time it should open firefox and you can press start. If you have internet connection, it should be running.
Next you might want to set up VNC server. On this machine it’s
vncserver :8 -name nick -geometry 1440×900
where you can change the desktop number, name, and geometry variables.
to get in, connect a vnc client to
129.xxx.xx.xxx:8
or whatever your desktop number is. You might be prompted for the password.
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