Specifications

14 | CHAPTER 1: RUNNING COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS® WITH AMAZON ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD™
2 Enter a username and password of your choice when prompted. If you are not
prompted for a username and password, a login.properties file already exists in your
home folder.
3 Write close in the Command Prompt window to close the COMSOL Multiphysics
server.
You have now created a login.properties file.
CREATE LOGIN.PROPERTIES (LINUX® AND MAC OS X)
1 Open a terminal window.
2 Navigate to the COMSOL installation directory.
3 Run the command ./bin/comsol mphserver.
4 Enter a username and password of your choice when prompted. If you are not
prompted for a username and password, a login.properties file already exists in your
home folder.
5 Write close in the Command Prompt window to close the COMSOL Multiphysics
server.
6 Close the terminal window.
You have now created a login.properties file.
UPLOAD LOGIN.PROPERTIES TO YOUR AMAZON S3™ BUCKET
You are now ready to upload your login.properties file to the Amazon S3™ bucket
created together with your license server.
1 Navigate to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ and click Amazon S3™.
2 Click the Amazon S3™ bucket created with your license server. You can find the
bucket name in the outputs of the license server created in the step before.
3 Click the Actions drop down menu and choose Upload.
4 Click Add Files.
5 In the pop-up window, navigate to the local folder containing login.properties and
choose the file login.properties.
6 Click Start Upload in the bottom-right corner of the window.
You have now prepared your Amazon S3™ bucket with a username and password and
can use this to automatically start the COMSOL Multiphysics server on EC2™.