Host a model in a webserver

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Maryam H2 asked Jan 10 2024 at 6:35 PM Jeanette F commented Jan 17 2024 at 4:40 PM

Host a model in a webserver

If I want to host a model in a web server using this instruction, can an external user get access to the website/model? if yes, how and what would be the address of that website?

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FlexSim 24.0.0

webserver host a model

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Answer 1 · 2024-01-10T19:06:56Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jan 10 2024 at 7:06 PM Jason Lightfoot commented Jan 15 2024 at 11:36 AM

Those instructions stop once the web server is running on the network - it's then up to your network admin to decide how to serve that to the world. There is an article on setting up (real) cloud nodes to do the same here.

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Maryam H2 commented · Jan 14 2024 at 4:33 AM

@Jason Lightfoot The info you shared is definitely helpful for understanding how to use AWS for distributed experiments or optimizations with FlexSim, and that's part of what I'm looking into. But there's another thing I'm curious about. I'm wondering if it's possible to put a FlexSim model on a website so that anyone can check it out and play around with it by tweaking a few settings. This would be for people who don't have FlexSim and just want to get a feel for how the model works without any complex setup. Is the same thing possible with the link you provided?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Maryam H2 commented · Jan 15 2024 at 11:36 AM

The webserver can do multiple things including:

1) Host an interactive FlexSim sessions (web based)

2) Process jobs via the FlexSim Experimenter

3) Manage custom jobs requests via its API.

You can set up dashboards for users to easily change some settings via the interactive session.

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Answer 2 · 2024-01-14T08:27:42Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jan 14 2024 at 8:27 AM

@Maryam H2, the link you have provided yourself and answers here at this site is all that you can get to start. If you run into problems than ask more specific questions about them. Some features need a background of knowledge that you have to gather somewhere else. In this case how to setup and administer a web server on a machine and network.
You need a license to run this feature. It can be your current license that you can transfer to a server to run a FlexSim web server.
This feature needs to accomplish some afford and time. To get it right I think this project can you compare with a work for building a project of a first FlexSim model alone.

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