Re: VxStats

[Tim Mooney <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

Rees, NP (Nick) wrote:

> All,
>
> We have a version of vxStats that seems to come from Carl Lionberger at
> SNS and I am currently trying to convert it to R3.14. Has anyone already
> done this?
>
> The real point of this missive is, however, that it has a couple of
> functions which traverse the internal CA structures to return the number
> of Channel access clients and the number of CA connections. This is a
> really useful diagnostic, but I really don't think having this sort of
> thing outside of the CA code-base is very good, and feel that CA should
> probably provide a few pieces of diagnostic information like this via an
> API. 
>
> Is it possible to do this? If I do it and forward on the code, can it be
> integrated into base?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick Rees
> Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
> Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713
>  
We got a copy of 3.14-compatible vxStats from SNS via the following URL:
   http://ics-web1.sns.ornl.gov/share/vxStats314.tar.gz

We fixed a few little glitches, added MEDM display files, and have 
included the resulting module
in synApps 5.1 
(http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/synApps/tar/synApps_5_1.tar.gz).  Also,
vxStats uses the timestamp record, which isn't in any 3.14 module I know 
of, so I stuck a
copy in synApps' std module.

Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630)963-1860
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.