Create Server Instance Using Command Line

Before you can deploy MATLAB^® code with MATLAB Production Server™, 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 Product.
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.