Re: benchtop testbeds for EPICS development and testing?

[Gedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org>]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your input, that is great to know and answers one of my
questions. I will definitely start with the simDetector to test the
network side and use softIOCs for initial development and testing. I
will still need some typical hardware to develop, debug, and evaluate
RTOS hardening aspects such as memory protection that rely on
existence, or non-existence, of memory management unit (MMU) or memory
protection unit (MPU) in the IOC processor. Realistic performance
evaluation will also need either time-accurate processor simulators or
real hardware. Network performance evaluation of any enhancements to
CA or other protocols might also motivate hardware measurement in the
future.

Gedare

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Mark Engbretson
<engbretson@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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> You can set up any number of softIOC's or even build the stand alone Area Detector simDetector as a known to be working environment to test (network) security hardening.  Why would you even need real hardware? That isn't what your testing.
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> That is probably one of the simplest real world examples to use  for testing as it is also a configuration that you can impact/crash by doing net scans across open ports.
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> To: Talk EPICS Tech <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
> Subject: benchtop testbeds for EPICS development and testing?
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> Hello folks,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has advice about a good set of hardware/software for a small testbed to develop/debug EPICS (core)?
> Alternately, if you have a reasonably generic method for EPICS development, I would be interested to know about it. This is in relation to planning my security hardening project, which will focus on EPICS 7.0+.
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> I'm interested in generally well-used IOCs that are supported by multiple OS targets, commonly used networking hardware (Serial+VME?) or Industry Packs, and a small, safe control application or simulator (virtual LINAC demo?).  I would like to cover all the supported OS targets with some common hardware that is still commercially available.
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> Gedare
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