Re: ALH Wishlist

[Mohan Ramanathan <mohan@aps.anl.gov>]

Well since this topic 
was brought up ....
We in xfd operations 
are not using alh at all. 
Instead I have 
a perl program which has direct channel 
access monitoring  ( for example) all the 
water flow PV in 40 front ends ( It actually 
monitors the SEVR field) when one of them 
goes into either a minor or major alarm 
the perl program, reads a few more fields 
like HIHI HIGH LOW LOLO and the VAL and 
then sends a mail to the alpha numeric pagers 
 about the major or minor alarm conditions 
and all the associated values.

I will 
be posting my perl channel access library 
in the distribution one of these days.... 
( its been working for atleast 6 months 
now)....

mohan
mohan@aps.anl.gov
Mark 
S. Engbretson wrote:
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>
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>>Maren 
writes:
>>
>>...we would 
like to notify a group of people by email.
>>Is 
there a way to set up the alarm handler 
to do this?
>>
>
>Note 
that the moment that people get this feature 
. . . the absolute next
>one is probably 
going to be sending such messages to alphanumeric 
pagers . .
>. the assumption being 
that if an alarm is important enough to attempt 
to
>contact a 'real person', then the 
condition probably reads to be addressed
>before 
someone logs in and checks email . . . sometime 
tomorrow.
>
>So the messages(s) 
being sent probably should be considered 
in that context
>as well.
>
>Me
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