Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Peter Milne <[email protected]> · Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:59:09 +0100

Hi Andrew

On 04/09/2012 07:55 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:

Hi Peter,

On 2012-04-09 Peter Milne wrote:

CA tunnelled successfully over ssh:

(IOC:5064 port forwarded to localhost:10013)

export EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=localhost:10013
export EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=no
export EPICS_CA_NAME_SERVERS=localhost:10013

camonitor cpsc_011_UPTIME
cpsc_011_UPTIME 2012-04-09 19:02:06.116235 107056
cpsc_011_UPTIME 2012-04-09 19:02:07.116355 107057

But on running css from the same shell session with the same exported
variables, it's unable to see the PV

=>  Is it possible to view a tunneled PV from CSS?.

Does your CSS have JCA configured to use the Pure Java implementation of the
CA client code, or the JNI implementation that calls OS-specific?  You can
find that under Preferences =>  CSS Core =>  EPICS.

I suspect the pure Java implementation of JCA doesn't have the ability to make
TCP-only connections (added to Base in 3.14.12) which is required to tunnel CA
over ssh. It should be possible to fix that by switching to JNI as long as the
native libraries it uses are from Base-3.14.12 or later.  Unfortunately I also
suspect the CSS distributions have not updated those Base libraries recently,
so you might have some difficulties with this unless you build your own
package.

You're correct, pure Java, with properties supplied by Kay, didn't work.

Using base 3.4.12, switched to JNI .. seems to pick up

EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST etc - Nice, but still doesn't work.

Here's a clue ..

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:

/home/pgm/SANDBOX/CSS/CSS_EPICS_3.0.2/plugins/org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics_1.1.5.20110824/lib/linux/x86/libjca.so:

/home/pgm/SANDBOX/CSS/CSS_EPICS_3.0.2/plugins/org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics_1.1.5.20110824/lib/linux/x86/libjca.so:

wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width

mismatch)

Source archive was:
/home/pgm/SANDBOX/CSS/epics_css_3.0.2-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip

Happy to wait for the next release anyway .. thanks

/Peter

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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