Amazon EC2 setup

Hello,

I was testing Deadline on a Amazon EC2 machine, but I couldn’t connect to Deadline Repository, yet. I’ve set up Repository on a local machine in a Dropbox folder. Installed Dropbox on the Amazon machine and set the Dropbox folder as the Repository location. I’m getting this error message: “Deadline configuration error: An error occurred while trying to connect to the Database (”"). It is possible that the Mongo Database server is incorrectly configured, currently offline, blocked by a firewall, or experiencing network issues."

The Mongo Database runs just fine, because I can connect to Repository with a Slave in the local network. The IP addess in the mentioned error message seems to be a local IP. Should I change it to a public IP? How do I do that?

Maybe there are any tutorials or instructions on how to set up Amazon machines for rendering with Deadline?

Thank you!

Good day,

We actually have a document that walks you through setting up a VPN to get this all working together. I would advise reading it over, especially the steps that begin on page 4, and that will hep you get one set up.

Cheers,
Example Configuration for Processing on a Public Cloud Update 2014.doc (183 KB)