Create Server Instance

Before you can deploy your MATLAB^® code with MATLAB Production Server™ in an on-premises setting, you must create a server instance to host your deployable archive. A server instance is one unique configuration of the MATLAB Production Server product. Each configuration has its own parameter settings file (main_config), as well as its own set of diagnostic files.

Prerequisites

Before creating a server instance using the command-line, ensure you have:

• installed MATLAB Production Server on your machine. For more information, see Install MATLAB Production Server.

• added the script folder to your system PATH environment variable. Doing so enables you to run server commands such as mps-new from any folder on your system.

You can also run server commands from the $MPS_INSTALL\script folder, where $MPS_INSTALL is the location where MATLAB Production Server is installed. For example, on Windows, the default location is C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Production Server\ver\script. ver is the version of MATLAB Production Server.

Procedure

To create a server instance from the command-line, enter the mps-new command from the system prompt. Specify the name of the server that you want to create as an argument to the mps-new command.

mps-new [path\]server_name [-v]

• path — path to the server instance and configuration that you want to create for use with the MATLAB Production Server product.

  If you want to create a server instance in the current folder, you do not need to specify a full path; only specify the server name.

• server_name — name of the server instance and configuration that you want to create.

• -v — enable verbose output to get the information and status about each folder created in the server configuration.

For example, to create a server instance with the name prod_server_1 located in C:\tmp and use the verbose mode, run the following on your system command prompt.

C:\tmp>mps-new prod_server_1 -v

The command generates the following output.

prod_server_1\.mps_version...ok 
prod_server_1\config\main_config...ok
prod_server_1\.mps_socket...ok 
prod_server_1\auto_deploy...ok 
prod_server_1\endpoint...ok 
prod_server_1\log...ok 
prod_server_1\old_logs...ok  
prod_server_1\pid...ok
prod_server_1\x509...ok  
The UUID of the newly created instance is 4876f876-56a6-40ef-a4e3-96a69b39cb49

For more information on the folders created in a server configuration, see Server Diagnostic Tools.

For creating server instances on the cloud, see Cloud Deployment.