Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Cheng Weixing@ssrc" <[email protected]> · Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:18:47 +0800

Dear Sir,

I have encounted a problem of recording channels while using ChannelArchive(version 1.7.1).

QDR1:INT-AVG ; QDR1:X-AVG ; QDR1:Y-AVG are three ai record, they all scanned at a period of 1 second.And I can use MEDM to monitor these channels,it's working well.

While I try to use channelArchiver to record these channel, it seems there have some problems. I have tried to use different config files, but none of them worked. Here is what I have done:

1. step 1.
edit the epics.cfg file ,including these lines to archive 3 channels.
------------------
QDR1:INT-AVG
QDR1:X-AVG
QDR1:Y-AVG
-------------------

then start to record the channels using command:

$ArchiveEngine epics.cfg dbpm_data_dir

and I can view and config the channels http://localhost:4812/
Waiting for several minutes, using http://localhost:4812/stop to end the
archiver

Using ArchiveExport to export the archived dbpm_data_dir:

$ArchiveExport -text -output dbpm_data dbpm_data_dir

the contents of dbpm_data is like this:
---------------------------------------
Time QDR1:INT-AVG [digits] Status QDR1:X-AVG [mm] Status QDR1:Y-AVG [mm] Status
7/24/2002 11:05:11.024723023 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:12.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:13.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:14.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:15.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:16.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
7/24/2002 11:05:17.000000000 5073   0.0286811   0.00344885 
....
----------------------------------------

The value of these three channels never changed?

2. step 2.
change epics.cfg to :
---------------------
QDR1:INT-AVG 1 Monitor
QDR1:X-AVG 1 Monitor
QDR1:Y-AVG 1 Monitor
---------------------

follow the operation as in step 1. 

The exported dbpm_data:
------------------------------------------------------
Time QDR1:INT-AVG [digits] Status QDR1:X-AVG [mm] Status QDR1:Y-AVG [mm] Status
7/24/2002 11:15:04.014441653 5071   0.0286927   0.00266235 
-------------------------------------------------------

no matter how long lasted, there have only one line in the file.

3. step 3.
Using 5 seconds scan in epics.cfg:
-------------------
QDR1:INT-AVG 5
QDR1:X-AVG 5
QDR1:Y-AVG 5
--------------------

And now the contents of dbpm_data is :
-------------------------------------------------------------
Time QDR1:INT-AVG [digits] Status QDR1:X-AVG [mm] Status QDR1:Y-AVG [mm] Status
7/24/2002 11:18:53.011652405 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:18:55.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:19:00.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:19:05.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:19:10.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:19:15.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317 
7/24/2002 11:19:20.000000000 5072   0.0284897   0.00256317
---------------------------------------------------------------
It is similar to step1.

4. step 4.
Set epics.cfg to 5 seconds monitor:
--------------------------
QDR1:INT-AVG 5 Monitor
QDR1:X-AVG 5 Monitor
QDR1:Y-AVG 5 Monitor
---------------------------

the export dbpm_data is like this:
------------------------------------------------------------
Time QDR1:INT-AVG [digits] Status QDR1:X-AVG [mm] Status QDR1:Y-AVG
7/24/2002 11:22:27.007671187 5076   0.0291571   0.00354628 
-------------------------------------------------------------

(Note:between different steps, I have deleted the old dbpm_data and dbpm_data_dir. so the new output file dbpm_data have no relationship with the old one)

We can see that the channel value changed in different steps, but it can't record the correct value for individual step. I don't know what's wrong with it, can you help me?

BTW: I can use ChannelArchive to record the example channel "$(USER):aiExample" or "$(USER):calcExample". it works very well while include these two channels. And also they scaned at a period of 1 second, so I really amazing about it.

Best Regards,
Cheng Weixing
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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