# Simulation Mode

For testing batch files or in order to check the movement of the instrument it may be helpful to run SICS in simulation mode. You must theb connect to a special simulation SICS server which may have been setup for you. In the simulation server, everything is like in the actual SICS server, except that no hardware is moved, co counts collected and no data file written. There is one speciality, however. The command:

       sync

synchronizes the parameters and limits in the simulation server with those in the instrument server.