Specifications

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a LicenseSecurityGroup - The security group created for your servers.
b LicenseServerIP - The IP address of the license server.
c LicenseServer - The host name of the license server.
d LoginBucketID - The name of the Amazon S3™ bucket created for the file
login.properties.
e SSHAccess - Command for forwarding ports using SSH.
f PuTTYAccess - Command for forwarding ports using PuTTY.
g Instructions - Instructions on how to forward the ports to the license server.
h InstructionsS3 - Instructions on how to upload the login.properties file to the
Amazon S3 bucket.
CREATE A CLOUD BASED LICENSE SERVER
The steps below describe how to use the AWS CloudFormation™ tool to create a
COMSOL license server running in the cloud. To do this you need the following:
• A Security Group (SG) limiting access to the COMSOL license server. To learn how
to create an SG, see the following instructions.
• A configured Amazon Elastic Network Interface (ENI). To learn how to create such
an ENI, see the following instructions.
• A COMSOL FNL license file prepared for the host ID of your ENI. For information
on how to obtain such a license file, contact your local COMSOL office. For a list
of COMSOL offices, please refer to http://www.comsol.com/contact/offices/.
• An Amazon S3 Bucket containing your COMSOL FNL license file.
To create a Security Group, follow the steps below:
1 Navigate to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ and click EC2.
2 Click Security Groups.
3 Click Create Security Group.
4 Enter a security group name, e.g. COMSOL security group, a description, e.g. My
COMSOL security group, and choose what Amazon Virtual Private Cloud™ that
your security group should belong to.
5 Click Create.