The thin client Simulation Compute Manager is not started, automatically, upon installation.
(In the following instructions, inside simulation-computeX and vX, X should be replaced with SCM major release)
To start the Simulation Compute Manager enter this command at a terminal prompt:
$ <your install location>/opt/Autodesk/simulation-computeX/bin/SimulationCompute --daemon
The program starts as a background process, and control of the terminal is returned to you, immediately.
To stop the Simulation Compute Manager, directly kill the process id specified in the --pidfilename argument used to start the daemon.
The Simulation Compute Manager configuration options are located in the file:
<your install location>/opt/Autodesk/simulation-computeX/bin/ComputeProvisioner.config.json
The Simulation Compute Manager logs its status, errors and warnings to a file located in this folder on each node:
<your install location>/Autodesk/SimulationCompute/vX/log
The Simulation Compute Manager maintains its database and temporary working space in the following location for each node on which it is running:
<your install location>/Autodesk/SimulationCompute/vX/database
Change this location by setting the environment variable SCM_DATAPATH to a different location prior to starting the Simulation Compute Manager. We recommend that you set a minimum mode of 0755 on any folder used for this purpose.
The Simulation Compute Manager detects which products are available to it with ComputeProvisioner.config.json files placed in the folder:
<your install location>/opt/Autodesk/simulation-computeX/bin
You can edit the ComputeProvisioner.config.json file so that the path names match the location of the installed executables they refer to.