Re: Problem with gateway

["Martin L. Smith" <mls@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Dehong,

On the client side try setting the environment variable:
EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT 6064

before starting the client or trying, for example:
caget gateway.connected

Hope this helps,
Marty


Dehong Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to set up a gateway (v2_0_2_1 with epics 3_14_8), am having
> trouble.  It complains about:
> CAC: Unable to connect because "Invalid argument"
>
> Mar 10 11:39:19 !!! Errlog message received (message is above)
>
> My pv list is called "gateway.pvlist".  It contains:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> EVALUATION ORDER ALLOW, DENY
>
> Crate1.*        ALLOW
> bpm36.*          ALLOW
>
> # Convert old Gateway internal process variable names
> gateway\.\(.*\)            ALIAS     gateway:\1
> gateway\.\(.*\)Flag        ALIAS     gateway:\1Flag          GatewayAdmin
> gateway\.alive             ALIAS     gateway:connected
> gateway\.postEventRate     ALIAS     gateway:clientPostRate
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The access list is called "gateway.access".  It has:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ASG(DEFAULT) {
>    RULE(1,READ)
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The command I use is:
> ./gateway -sport 6064 -cport 5065 -pvlist ./gateway.pvlist -prefix "gateway" -access ./gateway.access
>
> I cannot even access the internal PVs like:
> gateway:pvtotal
> gateway:active
>
> Please enlighten me.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Dehong