Monitoring & Control Software (Mcs); General; Mcs Documents - Safran CORTEX Series User Manual

4.3 Monitoring & Control Software (MCS)
4.3.1

General

Main MCS functions are:
 Display the current CORTEX configuration and status from the monitoring tables transmitted by
the SPS,
 Modify the setting of the equipment. This function is password-protected,
 Reset the TCP-IP connections to the CORTEX (close all TCP-IP connections to a given port or
close all connections to the CORTEX). This function is password-protected.
 Product-specific functions: telemetry Quick Look (CORTEX CRT), satellite commanding and
ranging (CORTEX CRT), etc.... For more details, see next sections.
The MCS can be installed in any PC workstation using and having 32 Mbytes of RAM or more. The
MCS and SPS communicate via an Ethernet link under TCP-IP.
Some of the TCP-IP ports of the CORTEX (monitoring, logging, etc...) accept simultaneous
connections of several clients while other ports (Control, Reset, etc...) accept only one connection at a
time. For more details concerning the Ethernet interface, refer to:
 CORTEX Series TCP-IP Ethernet interface (reference STI 100013): Ethernet ICD common to all
CORTEX products),
 CORTEX XXX TCP-IP Ethernet interface: product-specific Ethernet interface extension, where
XXX is the product extension name. Example: STI 100013_CRT is the CORTEX CRT Ethernet
ICD, STI 100013_HDR is the CORTEX HDR Ethernet ICD, STI 100013_ACS is the CORTEX
ACS Ethernet ICD, etc....
The MCS is built around an MCS kernel (supporting multiple CORTEX products such as the CORTEX
CRT, CORTEX HDR, CORTEX ACS, CORTEX RTR, etc...) and a product-specific SPS software
layer which is automatically identified when the MCS connects to the CORTEX SPS.
4.3.2

MCS Documents

MCS Documents are configuration files created and managed by the CORTEX MCS.
An MCS Document contains the whole set of configuration parameters that have been previously
stored on the disk under file extension .MCS.
The MCS document also contains the name or Ethernet address of the CORTEX whose configuration
has been saved in the MCS document. This name or address is displayed on top of the graphical
window.
A default MCS Document (cortex-nt.mcs) is loaded by the MCS when the CORTEX is started; it can be
then used to re-configure the machine. A copy of this file (MCS Table) is maintained in RAM and is
updated whenever the CORTEX configuration is changed by the MCS operator. The MCS Table can
be manually saved to the MCS Document on the hard disk by MCS Operator.
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