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One of the largest problems for tokamak devices such as Kazakhstan Tokamak for Material Testing (KTM) is theoperation scenarios’ development and execution. Operation scenarios may be varied often, so a convenient hardwareand software solution is required for scenario management and execution. Dozens of diagnostic and control subsystemswith numerous configuration settings may be used in an experiment, so it is required to automate the subsystemconfiguration process to coordinate changes of the related settings and to prevent errors. Most of the diagnostic andcontrol subsystems software at KTM was unified using an extra software layer, describing the hardware abstractioninterface. The experiment sequence was described using a command language. The whole infrastructure was brought together by a universal communication protocol supporting various media,including Ethernet and serial links. The operation sequence execution infrastructure was used at KTM to carry outplasma experiments.