To customize a network ODB connector:

1. From the main menu bar, select FileNetwork ODB ConnectorEditconnector name.

2. From the Edit Network ODB Connector dialog box that appears, click the Advanced tab.

3. From the Advanced tabbed page, choose how the server will be started.

   • Choose Automatically start server to indicate that Abaqus/CAE will start the network ODB server when you start the network ODB connector.

   • Choose Use manually started server to indicate that you have already started a network ODB server using the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure.

4. Select the shell that will be used by the local system to execute commands on the network ODB server. You must ensure that the shell command that you select is installed and found in the PATH environment variable on the local system.

   • Select ssh to use the secure shell command. The secure shell command uses identity authentication and encryption when communicating with the server and provides more security than the remote shell command. The ssh daemon service must be running on the remote machine.

   • Select rsh to use the remote shell command. The rsh daemon service must be running on the remote machine.

   Note:  The secure shell command and the remote shell command must be configured so that they do not prompt the user for a password. For more information, see the Dassault Systèmes Knowledge Base at www.3ds.com/support/knowledge-base.

5. If you chose Automatically start server to indicate that Abaqus/CAE will start the network ODB server, perform the following steps:

   1. Choose from the following to specify the port numbers:

      • Choose Auto-assign port to allow the host and remote systems to establish their own network communication port numbers.

      • Choose Specify port to force the host and remote systems to use a specified port number. In the Port field that appears, enter the desired port number. The port number must be a valid port number. You cannot use a port number that is reserved by the system or a port that is already in use.

   2. In the Remote ABAQUS execution procedure field, enter the command to run Abaqus on the remote system. The default command is the command that you used to start the current session of Abaqus/CAE; however, your site may have a customized command for executing Abaqus.

   3. In the Server timeout field, enter the network ODB server timeout in minutes. The default value is one day (1440 minutes). The server exits if it does not receive any communication from the client during the time specified. Regardless of this setting, if you started the server using Abaqus/CAE, the server exits when you end your Abaqus/CAE session. You can also stop the server by selecting FileNetwork ODB ConnectorStopserver name from the main menu bar.

   4. Click OK to create the network ODB connector and to close the editor. You still need to start the network ODB connector to make it active and to open a remote output database; for more information, see “Managing network ODB connectors,” Section 9.7.6.

6. If you chose Use manually started server to indicate that you already started the network ODB server from the command line, perform the following steps:

   1. Enter the Port number returned by the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure.

   2. Click OK to create the network ODB connector and to close the editor. You still need to start the network ODB connector to make it active and to open a remote output database; for more information, see “Managing network ODB connectors,” Section 9.7.6.

      If you started the server manually from the command line, you can close it using the stop parameter of the abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure, or you can wait for the server to timeout. The abaqus networkDBConnector execution procedure is described in “Network output database file connector,” Section 3.2.26 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide.