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Subject: Re: MCA and WAN connection
From: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>
To: Nicolas Strauss <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:31:43 -0500
On 10/9/14 9:45 AM, Nicolas Strauss wrote:
> Dear EPICS support,
>
> I'm trying to access a channel with a PV from a server (located in the
> USA and me sitting in Germany) with MCA for Matlab.
>
> For this I'm trying     CH1=mcaopen('pvname')    but without success.
>
> The question for me is, if the reason for this is the firewall of the
> server (but should be cutoff) or if I have to add the specific IP of
> the server to any file? (library)
> Probably problems in the different subnets?
>
> What/where is the parameter which has to be changed?

Hi, Nicolas.

I hope your EPICS IOC is *not* exposed to the Internet.  EPICS is not
designed to be secure, so you definitely don't want to put it on the
Internet.

It might be wise to get things working with just the EPICS Base caget
and caput programs first, and then once that works, get things working
in Matlab.

Now, you have a CA client on a network in Germany, and you have a CA
server on a different network in the US, and you want the CA client to
be able to access a PV hosted on the CA server in the US, right?

One way to do this would be to set up a VPN so that your CA client can
be on the same network as your CA server.  You probably will have to set
some environment variables correctly.  See:

* http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/CAref.html#Environmen

Another approach would be to tunnel CA through SSH.  See:

* http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/epics/caxy/
* http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2012/msg01350.php

Also see:

* http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2013/msg00141.php
* http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2013/msg02165.php

Lewis

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