Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:18:09 -0600

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:51:28 Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> I use procServ, but is there a tool to check whether an ioc was started
> on a particular computer?
> If not, I would like to be able to start the ioc (procServ process)
> remotely.

Why not just use the cainfo program that comes with Base to connect to a known 
PV living on that IOC (we have a heartbeat PV on all our IOCs which would be 
ideal for that).  That will tell you whether the IOC is up or not and which 
host it's running on.  If you want to wrap that query in something a little 
more polished I'd suggest looking at the equivalent cainfo.pl Perl script in 
base/src/cap5 which you can use as the basis for adding application-specific 
functionality, including starting the IOC if that's what you want.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System