By default, when you deploy the Autoscaling Service, Ansys applications are automatically detected if installed in a standard location, making them available for task execution in a cluster workflow. Detected applications appear in the properties of a cluster resource in the Ansys HPC Job Manager. See Viewing or Editing Autoscaling Cluster Properties in the Ansys HPC Platform Services User's Guide.

On Linux, Ansys applications are automatically detected if installed under /ansys_inc or /user/ansys_inc folders or using the AWP_ROOTXXX environment variables.

If applications are not automatically detected, you can manually add applications to the autoscaling configuration.

Note that applications are automatically re-detected every time you restart the Autoscaling Service. This means that if you install an Ansys application on the resource and then restart the Autoscaling Service, the newly installed application will be listed in the available applications in the resource's properties. Similarly, if you uninstall an application, it will no longer appear in the resource's properties when you restart the service.