communicating through RPC with IRB140 [WebWare SDK]

swagatk

Robot: ABB IRB 140 S4CPlus M2000





I am trying to set up communication between S4C controller and a PC through RPC (rpcgen) and RAP specifications.



RPC server is running on S4C controller. This is verified by following command executed on a remote PC



$ rpcinfo -p robot

   program vers proto   port

    300456    1   tcp   1008

    300457    1   tcp   1005





robot is the "robot controller IP address". As we can see, the RPC
services are available on the controller. Now, we tried to access one
of the procedures defined within program number "300456". This
procedure is "RAPGEN_RESTART" with version number 1 and procedure
number 5. Please refer to page no 16 of RAP PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION
TRP-1 (RPC, TCP/IP, SLIP) MANUAL.





First I create a file: rapgen.x

--------------------------------------------------

struct RAP_HEAD_TYPE{

   long userdef ;

   long data1;

};



typedef long RAP_STATUS_TYPE;



typedef struct RAP_HEAD_TYPE RAP_HEAD_TYPE;



typedef short RAPGEN_RESTART_MODE_TYPE;



struct  RAPGEN_RESTART_REQ_TYPE {

    RAP_HEAD_TYPE head;

    RAPGEN_RESTART_MODE_TYPE restart_mode;

 };



typedef struct RAPGEN_RESTART_REQ_TYPE RAPGEN_RESTART_REQ_TYPE;



 struct  RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE {

    RAP_HEAD_TYPE head;

    RAP_STATUS_TYPE status;

 };



typedef struct RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE  RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE ;  







program rapgen_restart_prog{

   version rapgen_restart_vers{

      RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE rapgen_restart(RAPGEN_RESTART_REQ_TYPE)=5;

   }=1;

}=300456;



---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------

$ rpcgen -C -a rapgen.x



Makefile.rapgen  rapgen_client.c  rapgen_clnt.c 
rapgen.h     & nbsp; rapgen_server.c 
rapgen_svc.c  rapgen.x   rapgen_xdr.c



Now, we modify the client program rapgen_client.c as follows:

---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------

#include "rapgen.h"



void

rapgen_restart_prog_1(char *host)

{

    CLIENT *clnt;

    RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE  *result_1;

    RAPGEN_RESTART_REQ_TYPE  rapgen_restart_1_arg;

  rapgen_restart_1_arg.head.userdef=1;  // it is defined as per specification

 rapgen_restart_1_arg.head.data1=1;   &n bsp;  // stated in manual - not important

   rapgen_restart_1_arg.restart_mode=0;   // warm start mode

#ifndef    DEBUG

    clnt = clnt_create (host, rapgen_restart_prog, rapgen_restart_vers, "tcp");

    if (clnt == NULL) {

        clnt_pcreateerror (host);

        exit (1);

    }

#endif    /* DEBUG */



    result_1 = rapgen_restart_1(&rapgen_restart_1_arg, clnt);

    if (result_1 == (RAPGEN_RESTART_RESP_TYPE *) NULL) {

        clnt_perror (clnt, "call failed");

    }

#ifndef    DEBUG

    clnt_destroy (clnt);

#endif     /* DEBUG */

}





int

main (int argc, char *argv[])

{

    char *host;



    if (argc < 2) {

        printf ("usage: %s server_host
", argv[0]);

        exit (1);

    }

    host = argv[1];

    rapgen_restart_prog_1 (host);

exit (0);

}



---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------



Now we compile the programs to generate rpc_client.



$make  -f Makefile.rapgen

 Makefile.rapgen  rapgen_client.c  rapgen_clnt.c 
rapgen.h     & nbsp; rapgen_server.c 
rapgen_svc.c  rapgen.x      rapgen_xdr.o

rapgen_client    rapgen_client.o  rapgen_clnt.o  rapgen_server  rapgen_server.o  rapgen_svc.o  rapgen_xdr.c





"rapgen_client" is the executable. Now, when we execute this program, we get following error:



$ ./rapgen_client robot

call failed: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak





Where did we commit mistake? It seems, S4C is not allowing the client to access its service.



Before doing this, we also configured rap on the controller by choosing following options:



1. Physical CHannel - Lan

2. Transmission Protocol - TCP/IP

3. Application Protocol - RAP

3.1 Remote IP address: ip of client PC

3.2 Port No. : -1 ( we also tried with port number like 1008 - same as that on controller)

3.3 Send start up message: No

3.4 Enable SUBSCW: No



Above programs were executed/compiled on a P3 machine running on Debian Linux (2.6.8-3-386).



Do we need to set some feature so that the S4C controller allows authentication automatically?



Please help.



Regards,

Swagat

amarendra

Presently i am also having the same problem.
does anybody have solution to this problem?

JC ALT

Hello

 

I recommend taht you use Webware SDk which is implemeting all this dialog layer

 

Best Regards

JC