Contents

• Introduction
  • Software License Agreement
  • Definitions
  • What's new for Release 4.1
  
  
• Installation
  • Using CVS for source code control
  • Obtaining and Building the Software
  • Testing the Installation
  
  
• Configuration
  • Configuring the dcsconfig files
  • Configuring MyAuthServer
  • Configuring the Diffraction Image Server
  • Configuring DCSS
  • Configuring your impersonation server
  • Configuring your crystal screening server
  • Configuring "enhanced" Blu-Ice
  • Configuring "original" Blu-Ice
  • Configuring the detector simulator
  • Configuring SSRL's DHS
  
  
• Starting and Stopping programs
  • Starting and Stopping DCSS
  • Starting the hardware simulator
  • Starting "enhanced" Blu-Ice
  • Starting "original" Blu-Ice
  • Starting the Diffraction Image Server
  • Starting the MyAuthServer for authentication
  
  
• Maintaining the database.dat file
  • Dumping the database.dat file
  • Recreating the database.dat file
  • Format of the database.dat file
  
  
• Writing Scripted Devices and Operations
  • General DCS Scripting Commands
  • Scripted Device Family Relationships
  • Exception Handling
  
  
• Adding Scripts to the Scripting Engine
  • Adding New Scripted Devices
  • Adding New Scripted Operations
  
  
• Example scripts
  • Testing the diffractometer
  • The energy device on different beam lines
  
  
• The DCS Protocol
  • The DCS Message Structure
  • Connection Protocol
  • Gui to Server Messages (gtos)
  • Hardware to Server Messages (htos)
  • Server To GUI Client Messages (stog)
  • Server To Hardware Messages (stoh)
  
  
• Example code listings in ASCII
• Adding new hardware support
• CVS software projects
• Packages needed by BLU-ICE
• Document Version Information
  • Change history