Introduction

This application provides an overall desktop from which to run the various interacting IRMIS applications. As of the moment, the PV Viewer and IOC Viewer are available. The PV Viewer includes the ability to view clients (applications) of a selected PV.

The individual applications may be chosen from the File->New Document menu. Also, certain actions within one application will automatically bring up another. In general, any tabular data whose text is blue can be selected and will enact some action.

See the Features section for details on the individual applications on this desktop.

Features

PV Viewer

The PV Viewer supports finding a specific set of process variables, or just browsing all known PV's by various categories. The PV's are organized by "system", ioc, db file, and record type. Additionally, you may search using a wildcard pattern for the PV name, and even specify a particular PV field name and value that must be present.

The result of a search is a list of process variables. Select one, and a variety of details about that PV will be shown. The set of all fields and their values from the db file definition are shown. All links (within and across ioc's) that refer to the selected PV are shown. Lastly, any known references to that PV by external applications is shown.

A simple "history mode" is provided, whereby you specify a PV search by wildcard pattern, and a list of IOC reboots related to that PV is displayed. This shows all known IOC boots where this PV was present in a db file.

IOC Viewer

The ioc viewer shows the list of known IOC's. A greyed out entry means that ioc is flagged as "inactive" in the database. Selecting an ioc will show all known attributes for that ioc.