HowTo Documents

This is a directory of various How-To documents written by members of the EPICS collaboration. Contributions to this page are most welcome!

EPICS Base on Different Architectures and Operating Systems

• Getting Started with EPICS on RTEMS
• Getting Started with R3.14.7 on a PC104 running Linux
• How To Port EPICS to a new OS/Architecture

Drivers and Device Support

• How To Do Serial (using Asyn Driver)
• Beginners Guide to using VXI-11 (with Asyn Driver)
• How to make your EPICS driver operating system independent
• How To Write Device Support that uses Asyn Driver (Incomplete!)
• How to use GPIB ports with linux-gpib and StreamDevice

Applications

• How To Install Channel Archiver On Scientific Linux
• What PV Save and Restore Tools are available

Infrastructure and Other Stuff

• How To Set Up a Linux Box as an IOC Boot Server
• How To Set Up a Mirror of the EPICS Web Site
• How to Set Up a Soft IOC Framework on Linux
• How to Set Up Console Access and Logging for VME and Soft IOCs
• How to Set Up NAL (Nagios Alarm Handler) to monitor an EPICS network