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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After a bit of experimentation, it turns out that ParaView local client, remote pvserver – once it makes the connection – does not tie up the 11111 port with
recent versions of ParaView. However, as you are waiting for the connection (or if the connection fails and you keep the client open), the ParaView port (11111) will be tied up and others won’t be able to start a remote connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">With a little help from my friends (Ummm … thanks as always, Utkarsh), the trick is as follows. We are trying to execute a command line, reverse connected
remote server on a different port than 11111. We will connect to port 11110.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To tell if port 11110 is busy, use netstat:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Not busy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">> netstat -l -n --protocol=inet | egrep 11110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Busy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">> netstat -l -n --protocol=inet | egrep 11110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:11111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now, let’s make the connection:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Client side:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">> paraview -url=csrc://localhost:11110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Server side (with appropriate MPI submittal and other support):
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">> pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering -rc -ch=your-client-computer:11110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Connects!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY ARL (US) [mailto:richard.c.angelini.civ@mail.mil]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan; DeMarle, David Edward (External Contacts)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Port number<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I set them randomly in my host PVSC file:<br>
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<Option name="PV_SERVER_PORT" label="Local port number" save="false"><br>
<Range type="int" min="1025" max="65535" step="1" default="random"/><br>
</Option><br>
<Option name="SERVER_PORT" label="Remote port number" save="false"><br>
<Range type="int" min="1025" max="65535" step="1" default="random"/><br>
</Option><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:teal">Rick Angelini</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></i><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:teal"><br>
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#003366">USArmy Research Laboratory</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#003366">CISD/HPC Architectures Team<br>
Building 120 Cube 315<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#003366">Phone: 410-278-6266</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> paraview-bounces@paraview.org [paraview-bounces@paraview.org] on behalf of Scott, W
Alan [wascott@sandia.gov]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DeMarle, David Edward (External Contacts)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Port number</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks David!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Unfortunately, I am trying to automate the process, thus need to set the client side port number by command line or environment variable.
The user won’t even know the port number I am using. Further, it may/will change every run.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Any idea how to set the client side port number through command line?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Port number</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black">In the Edit Server Configuration dialog with a Client / Server (reverse connection) server type, enter the desired port number. The client will then wait on that port for the server to
connect back to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black">Afterward start up pvserver with arguments of "-rc -sp=port#" to make it connect to the waiting client on the specified port number.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black">David E DeMarle<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>
R&D Engineer<br>
21 Corporate Drive<br>
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>
Phone: 518-881-4909<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Scott, W Alan <<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Is there a way to tell ParaView what port to use on the client side, as well as the server side, for reverse connect remote pvserver
paraview?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888">Alan</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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