SeaServer

The SeaServer is a SICS server running in parallel to the Server for instrument control. The server program is just a copy of the SICServer. However, when testing new features, different versions might be used for instrument control (sics server process) and for sample environment (sea server process).

Directory Structure

All stuff related to sea are placed in $HOME/sea. All script files needed for the sea server process are identical on all instruments and are placed in the subdirectory sea/tcl. There is one exception, sea/sea.tcl. This file contains the location of the files and the instrument name, and calls the instrument independent startup file sea/tcl/seainit.tcl.

The server log files are located in sea/log, and the database for the logger in sea/logger. The copy of the SICServer for sea is sea/SICServer, and there is a link to it (sea/SeaServer) which is started with the script sea/startwithpid.

Connection between Sea and SICS

On Startup, both servers (sea and SICS) try to make a connection to the other server. For this, the following lines have to be included into the sics startup script:

  source $home/sea/tcl/remob.tcl
  connect_sea