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A3 ICS CONFIGURATION RPC PROTOCOL
The following document describes ICS's Confi guration RPC Protocol.
This information is supplied to enable a RPC programmer to confi gure ICS
devices that have an Ethernet interface with RPC commands.
A3.1 INTRODUCTION
This document defi nes the confi guration interface to the ICS Ethernet de-
vices (hereafter referred to as the Edevice). The purpose of this document
is to allow the communication between the controlling computer and the
Edevice, for the purposes of modifying the operational characteristics of the
Edevice. Edevices are ICS products whose Model number is in the 8xxx
range. Not all commands are supported by all Edevices.
A3.2 SCOPE
This specifi cation addresses the Edevice communication for the purposes
of operational confi guration.
This specifi cation is to be considered an addendum to the VXI-11 specifi ca-
tion for communication to the VXI-11 compliant ICS Edevice Interfaces.
The Edevice follows the VXI-11.2 and/or VXI-11.3 specifi cations.
It is assumed the reader is conversant with ONC/RPC and XDR specifi cations
as published by Sun Microsystems. All client/Edevice communication is per-
formed through ONC/RPC and thus requires knowledge of both (ONC/RPC
and XDR) specifi cations. In addition, it is assumed the reader is conversant
with the VXI-11 and VXI-11.2 specifi cations as published by the VXIbus
Consortium. In some cases, the reader will require an understanding of the
GPIB (IEEE-488) specifi cation as published in the IEEE Standards.
A3.3 SPECIFICATION OBJECTIVES
This specifi cation has the following objectives:
1. To enable the creation of tools to perform Edevice confi guration.
2. To enable applications to perform temporary modifi cations to the
Edevice confi guration.
3. To defi ne the ONC/RPC protocol used by the Edevice confi guration.