Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Tue, 24 May 2011 16:53:59 +0200

On 24.05.2011 16:33 Williams Jr., Ernest L. wrote:

Hi
Is this the same as procServ

One layer above.

procServ allows telnet access to soft IOCs - it is the "soft" one channel version of a console server (aka Moxa box or equivalent).

Conserver [1] is a daemon that connects to console connections - provided by procServ, Moxa boxes, serial lines, etc.

The conserver daemon basically keeps the connection to all the consoles up and does the logging. It also provides a TCP based service that allows

users to connect to consoles by means of a client program called console. The conserver daemon provides authentication for these user connections,

makes sure only one gets write access, etc.

The user calls "console <iocname>", which connects to the conserver daemon.
The conserver daemon authenticates the user, and connects the user to the console connection of the specified IOC.

That IOC can be a soft IOC under procServ, a VME IOC connected to a terminal server, anything serial connected somehow to something. The connection

details are part of the conserver daemon configuration, the user only needs the IOC name.

Ralph

[1] http://www.conserver.com/

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System