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#### To Determine the Orbix Communication Protocol

You can determine the Orbix communication protocol on the host by doing the following:

1. Start I-DEAS on the computer where you want to determine the Orbix communication protocol.

2. From the I-DEAS Prompt window, open a command window.

- On Unix systems, type oaxx execute xterm then press ENTER.

- On PC systems, type oaxx execute cmd.exe then press ENTER.

Opening a command window on a PC from the I-DEAS Prompt window

This will open a terminal window or DOS window into which you can type commands.

3. From the command window, type the following command:

orbixd -v

You should see output similar to the following:

Orbix daemon v3.0.1PATCH-11

s1474-3.0.1PATCH-11: Orbix Version v3.0.1PATCH-11 for Microsoft Visual C++ on AIX 4.3.2

The first line of the output shows the Orbix version. In this case, it is version 3.0.1.

- If the version is 3.0 or higher, then Orbix uses the IIOP protocol.

- If the version is less than 3.0, then you will get an error message when you type the orbixd –v command (versions of Orbix previous to version 3.0 do not support the –v command line switch). If this is the case, then Orbix uses the non-standard Orbix protocol and you will need to set the OrbixIIOPProtocol entry to 0 in the Pcdlrn.ini file.