SmartSockets

SmartSockets is the communication package used by many CLON programs. We have license with TIBCO, it must be renewed every year, normally in September.

Startup procedure

Normally it is started automatically by startup script /etc/init.d/smartsockets with following contents:

#!/bin/bash
#
# two following lines are for chkconfig
# chkconfig: 345 96 4
# description: SmartSockets is the main communication tool for CLAS online \
#              processes
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
INSTALL_PATH="/apps/smartsockets/ss68"
case "$1" in
start)
    cd $INSTALL_PATH
    . bin/rtinit.sh
    ./bin/rtserver -server_names clondb1 2> /dev/null
    echo
    echo "SmartSockets rtserver started"
    echo
    ;;
stop)
    echo "Killing rtserver.x"
    killproc rtserver.x
    echo "Done."
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage smartsockets [start|stop]"
    ;;
esac

It should be installed using command

chkconfig --add smartsockets

and checked by

chkconfig --list smartsockets

with following output:

smartsockets    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

TIBCO download site: http://download.tibco.com/. To login use boiarino@jlab.org as user name and usual password.

Sergey Boyarinov is an authorized user for the following account: SURAJE-13612-13612.

Documentation

SmartSockets version 6.8 documentation is available as html. End User License Agreement is here.

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