Re: Simple alarm monitor

[Bo Jakobsen via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

As always with nice open source software the choices are many, I will give some of them a try.

Best

    Bo

On 23/01/2019 22.32, Maren Purves wrote:

We run alh here (to send email, the 'user interface' is on a virtual
display that nobody looks at) and it works fine on CentOS5 and CentOS6
(with EPICS 3.13.8 ...)

I may try out your new one, Rolf, thanks for that!

Maren Purves
East Asian Observatory

On 1/23/19 09:52, Rolf Keitel via Tech-talk wrote:

Hi Bo,

You don’t say what platform you want to run this on.

The old EPICS alarm handler alh, a standard EPICS extension would do what you want (alh is using Motif, but not maintained any more).

https://epics.anl.gov/extensions/alh/index.php

We have a fully alh-compatible alarm handler which uses Qt. It is run here as the production alarm handler.

http://isacwserv.triumf.ca/epics/TAlh/

- rolf -

Rolf Keitel, Ph.D

TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall

Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3

Tel.: 604 222 7453

e-mail: rolf@triumf.ca <mailto:rolf@triumf.ca>

*From:*tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> *On Behalf Of *Bo Jakobsen via Tech-talk
*Sent:* January 22, 2019 2:00 AM
*To:* tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
*Subject:* Simple alarm monitor

Hi all

I am looking for a "simple alarm monitor".
The ones I found all seems to be to large a framework to set up for what I am trying to do on a small scale.

I would just like a monitor program which monitors a small number of PV's (order of 50)

* Writes to a log when the PV goes into or out of Alarm status

* Potentially can call a external program the an alarm happens (for e.g. sending a text messeage or mail).

I was considering to write something in python, but if something like this already exists that would be easier :-)

Best

Bo