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#### To Determine the Orbix Port

You can determine the port that I-DEAS uses for Orbix communications by doing the following:

1. Start a session of I-DEAS on the computer where you want to determine the Orbix port.

2. From the I-DEAS Prompt window, open a command window by doing one of the following:

- 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

Implementation Repository Path …

Daemon Port :1570

Daemon Port Base :1570

Daemon Port Range :50

The 1570 value listed to the right of "Daemon Port" is the Orbix port you should use. If it is not 1570, then you will need to edit the OrbixPort entry with the port number.

If you get an error message when you type the orbixd –v command, then the Orbix version is less than version 3.0 and does not support the –v command line switch. You will need to type the following command to determine the Orbix port:

list –h yahoo.com

You should get some error messages similar to the following:

[341: Retrying connection to host `yahoo.com' port 1570]

The port displayed in the error message is the Orbix port you should use.