SCP Engine and the DSS Infrastructure

The DSS infrastructure employs a network capability to facilitate fast data transfer. This infrastructure requires that each machine can resolve the computer name and IP address quickly.

The DSS infrastructure for each computer hosting an engine must be manually set to point to a single Simulation Executive Host computer. This procedure is available in Advanced Installation Options section of the DYNSIM Getting Started Guide or the DYNSIM Activation Manager / SCP Application section of this manual.

Executing this procedure is required for the machine hosting the SCP Engine. It also required for any machine hosting a FAIM or SimSync Engine.

The SCP Engine performs special communications with every FAIM and SimSync Engine in the simulator system. Therefore, the SCP machine(s) must have listed in its hosts file the name and IP address of every machine with a FAIM or SimSync Engine. These would typically be AWs and WPs (or their Foxboro Evo equivalents). The IP address chosen during the "Set Interface" option performed on the AW / WP is the IP address that should appear in the hosts file of the machine(s) with SCP Engine(s).

For example, a simulation with 6 machines may have the following IP addresses used by the DYNSIM network (for engine communication and set interface purposes). These are IP addresses chosen/configured by the OTS engineer.

The host’s file of the SCP machine (SCPPC) may look like the following:

169.254.121.202 DYNSIMPC

169.254.121.203 SCPPC

169.254.121.204 AW0001

169.254.121.205 WP0001

169.254.121.206 WP0002

169.254.121.207 WP0003

Note: These are not the IP addresses associated with the FECN (formerly MESH) network.