RE: Epics Archiver Online Status Question [SEC=OFFICIAL]

["STARRITT, Andrew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Adam,
At the Australian Synchrotron, we use a few mechanism to check the status of our archiver appliances:

 

1/ We use a general purpose box status driver that occasionally pings the archive appliance  host (or any network device) to check it is at least on the network.

2/ We have a status IOC running on the archive appliance that check that 8 instance of the jsvc.exec process re running; and

3/ A cron job that attempts to retrieve data from the archiver appliance and writes to a status record depending on success/fail -  this is new this week.

I’m happy to share any/all of the above.

Regards

Andrew

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Hi All,

 

Are there any PVs associated when you start up the Epic Archiver that you can read for status of the Archiver (Online, Running, Etc)?  If not does anyone have a simple solution to display in CSS GUI (LED or Text Box) that the archiver is in fact running, one thought was an ASUB record with some C written to check if the web interface of the archiver was reachable.

 

Thanks,

Adam