Accessing MAPDL aaS instance on a cluster

[mikerife]

Hello
@akaszynski @germa89

I have someone who launched MAPDL aaS in GRPC mode on a clusters viz node. It started up properly etc. The viz node IP address (external) is 10.0.0.5. They then try to connect to it with the following on a local computer (not the viz node):

from ansys.mapdl import core as pymapdl
mapdl = pymapdl.Mapdl(IP='10.0.0.5', port=50052)

After a while this returns an error that:

OSError: Unable to connect to MAPDL gRPC instance at 127.0.0.1:50052

The referencing to the local loopback IP address is throwing me off. Looking for ideas.
Mike
ps pinging @tnguyen78 for visibility

[germa89]

Hi @mikerife

I believe Python is case sensitive. Therefore they should not use IP rather ip.

I will do something about this.

[mikerife]

@germa89 Doh!! I'm so used to writing IP....good catch thanks,
Mike

[germa89]

APDL got us very bad habits

[mikerife]

The user wrote back and we did have upper case IP; changing to ip worked as expected. Thanks @germa89

[germa89]

Always happy to help :)

From now on, this should not happen again. The PR #2010 checks for all the arguments and raise an exception if the argument is not allowed. :)