A connection attempt failed because the connected party

When starting the elastic analysis Diamonds gives the error

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Solution

The anti-virus/anti-spam software blocks the calculation core of Diamonds.

1. Close Diamonds
2. Add Diamonds.exe and BuildSoftSever.exe to the list of safe programs in the anti-virus/anti-spam software
   • • Diamonds.exe is default located in C:\Program Files (x86)\BuildSoft\Diamondsxxxx\
     • BuildSoftServer.exe is default located in C:\Program Files (x86)\BuildSoft\Diamondsxxxx\DiamondsCalculations\

   Replace xxxx with the correct Diamonds version: 2014, 2015, 2016, …