General SICS commands

This section describes general SICS concepts and SICS commands available to all instruments.

Chapter Overview

• This chapter starts with an overview over some basic SICS concepts.
• Than there are system commands for closing the server, requesting status information etc.
• The Token command for managing control access to the SICS server.
• A few commands permit to change user rights, set output files and the like.
• SICS has a built in macro facility which is accessible through a few commands.
• Than there is the famous LNS-Rünbuffer system.
• Motors and parameters need to be driven.
• Logging of client output to a file can be performed with the LogBook command and the commandlog .
• SICS has a facility to optimise a peak with respect to several parameters.