Launching IRIS Applications

Launch applications either on your workstation or remotely over the network using the IRIS Tools menu.

To open any of these utilities on a remote machine, the SSH key of the local machine must be copied to the remote machine so the SSH connection can be made without typing a password.
  1. Double-click a network node icon to show the IRIS Tools menu for that node as shown in the example above.
  2. Select an IRIS function.
    • Setup– the major configuration utility in IRIS (see IRIS and RDA Utilities Guide (M212925EN)).
    • Color Setup– to configure the IRIS color scales (see IRIS and RDA Utilities Guide (M212925EN)).
    • Siris and qiris– to start and stop IRIS.
    • Utilities– to start the graphical utilities menu (see IRIS and RDA Utilities Guide (M212925EN)).
    • Overlay– to edit your background maps (see IRIS and RDA Utilities Guide (M212925EN)).
    • Real–time Display– to see an instant radar display.

    • Xterm– starts a remote X-terminal.

    • Sigaudio– to control the Iris sound features
    • VRibbon– for optional IRIS/TDWR Option.
    • Runways– for optional IRIS/TDWR Option.
    • Ribbon setup– for optional IRIS/TDWR Option.