By distributing an EPICS Server I/O server to a target computer, you can use the EPICS Server I/O server on multiple target computers.

To distribute EPICS Server I/O servers, you must copy the whole LabVIEW project or application to the target computer.

When you distribute an EPICS Server I/O server, the shared variables for publishing are source shared variables. Source shared variables have the following types:

  • Local source shared variables—Local source shared variables exist on the development computer. The URL of this type of source shared variables is \\development_computer\process\variable.
  • Remote source shared variables—Remote source shared variables do not exist on the development computer. The URL of this type of source shared variables is \\remote_computer\process\variable.

    • When you distribute an EPICS Server I/O server to a target computer, LabVIEW changes the URLs of local source shared variables from the development computer to the target computer. For example, LabVIEW changes the URL \\development_computer\library1\variable1 to \\target_computer\library1\variable1. LabVIEW does not change the URLs of remote source shared variables.