Specifications

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2 Click Create New Stack.
3 Write a name for your stack—for example, My-COMSOL-License-Server.
4 Navigate to the folder where you saved the Cloud Formation templates and choose
the file COMSOL_AmazonLicenseServer.json.
5 You now need to specify some parameters controlling the creation of the COMSOL
license server.
a AcceptLicense - Write yes if you have read through and accept the COMSOL
Software License Agreement, available at http://www.comsol.com/shared/
downloads/sla.pdf. Please observe that if you do not answer yes to this question,
you will not be able to create a COMSOL License Server in the cloud.
b AMIID - If you have created a custom COMSOL AMI, enter the ID of the AMI
here. This input is optional.
c Company - Specify your company name.
d ElasticNetworkInterface - The ID of your Elastic Network Interface.
e ENISecurityGroup - The name of the security group in which the ENI resides.
f ENIVPCId - The ID of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud™ in which the ENI
resides.
g InstanceType - Specify what instance type you want to use for your COMSOL
license server. The recommended type is t1.micro.
h KeyDir - Specify the local directory where your key file resides. Observe that a
trailing backslash is needed.
i KeyName - Specify the name of the key pair that you want to use.
j LicenseBucketId - The name of the Amazon S3™ bucket created in the step
described above.
k LicenseServerPort - Specify the first TCP/IP port of your on premise license
server. Default is 1718.
l LicenseServerPort2 - Specify the second TCP/IP port of your on premise license
server. Default is 1719.
m Name - Specify your name.
n UserName - Name of the license server user. Default is comsol-user.
6 Click Next.
7 At the bottom of the page, select the check box at the text “I acknowledge that this
template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources.”
8 Click Next.