Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Giovanni Savarese LNL via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:08:18 +0200

Hello,

if you want at this link you can find the thread of a similar discussion

about the alarm-logger with a link of a possible docker compose solution

https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2023/msg01035.php.

If the link does not work here is the link to the repository:

https://github.com/giosava94/docker-phoebus-alarm.

Hope this helps you,
Giovanni S

On 21/07/23 15:57, Charles Jenkins via Tech-talk wrote:

Hello All,

My name is Merrill Jenkins and I am working on the Fermilab Mu2e

Experiment.

I have been working on adapting CSS Phoebus to monitor and control the

Cosmic Ray Veto (CRV) for this experiment.  Currently, there are no

electronics or software installed for the CRV at the experiment, so I

have put together a simulated system that uses an EPICS solftIoc.  I

have been able to set up Phoebus to display read-back values for the

elements of the CRV detector.  I have been able to setup the

alarm-server for these elements. (I have installed zookeeper, kafka

and I have been able to configure the alarms with alarm-server.sh.) 

The alarm tree is populated, the alarm area panel works, the

annunciation panel works and so does the alarm table.

Phoebus will run for a while and then hang, especially if I change the

value of an element so that it trips an alarm.  It seems that Phoebus

will hang if there are problems with the alarms package. I think, that

in this case, the program stops working because the alarm package

wants to log this change.  (But, I could be wrong.) So I am trying to

setup the alarm-logger.  However, I am not making any headway with

setting up the alarm-logger.  Over the past year I have looked over

posted documentation and was able to solve many problems  However, I

don't see any hints in the documentation on how to setup the

alarm-logger after installing elasticserver.  Could someone point me

to how to set up the alarm-logger?  (Also, if this is not the problem,

could someone point me to what this problem might be and how to solve

it?)

A second issue, is how to include the electronics logbook (we are

using ECLAPI) into Phoebus for possible direct entries from Phoebus. 

I see that there are several packages including "elog" and "olog".  Is

there an easy way to adapt a new electronic logbook so that it may be

accessed by Phoebus?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks,
Merrill Jenkins

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System