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Olog looks good. I think a defining characteristic of a good
logbook system is an API that makes it simple to log critical
information directly from the programs and scripts that operators
and system experts use. Of the 600,000+ log entries made during the
past decade of JLab operations, only ~3% were made from the web
form, the remainder were submitted by API clients.
The approach we took at Jlab for the current logbook system was to
utilize the open source Drupal Content Management System and
implement the Jlab-specific business logic as a handful of custom
modules. The huge reservoir of off-the-shelf modules from
drupal.org gave us revision control, faceted search via apache
SOLR/Lucene, rule-based actions (triggers), taxonomy-term-based
entry classification, and more for free (little-to-no code
development required). While we chose MySQL for the back-end
relational database, Drupal also supports Postgres and
(theoretically) even Oracle.
We focused our development efforts on the API. In addition to the
web-form, programmatic entries can be made by the HTTP PUT of an XML
file to the web server. This XML file is defined and validated by a
formal schema, but clients need not worry about it because we have
provied API wrappers around it for Java, C++, Perl, and Python along
with a command-line tool that can be invoked from any script. So
from a Java program for example, a basic logentry can be as simple
as
public static void main(String[] args) throws LogException {
LogEntry entry = new LogEntry("Hello World", "TLOG");
long lognumber = entry.submitNow();
System.out.println("Successfully submitted log entry number: " + lognumber);
}
Or, from the command-line the hello world would be:
logentry -t "Hello World" -l TLOG
The logbooks server is only-accessible by JLAB users, but some info
is available. I'm happy to share war stories/lessons-learned with
anyone contemplating a similar approach.
On 7/30/2013 6:35 AM, Dalesio, Leo wrote:
It should be noted that this log book is under very active development. It will be deployed at NSLS II at the operator and commissioning log book.
Of note, attachments to the log book are being standardized to be recognized and operated on by other applications. One example is a log entry from a CSS screen will attach the list of PVs. From the CSS log viewer, you can open the attachment in a data browser and see the PVs around that time.
There is a web viewer.
There is also a python callable interface for making entries. We are using this to allow our physics and experiment control applications to make entries directly from their scripts.
Bob
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ralph Lange [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:14 AM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: Re: Electronic Logbooks
There's also oLog [1], which is part of AccelUtils [2], a recent
collaborative tools approach between BNL, FRIB, SLAC, and HZB.
REST based, database backend, with CSS integration.
Regards,
~Ralph
[1] http://olog.sourceforge.net
[2] http://accelutils.sourceforge.net
On 29.07.2013 16:15, Miroslav Pavleski wrote:
Hi
We are currently evaluating Electronic Logbooks solutions for ESS. I
would be really grateful if you provide references to some existing
solutions.
With Regards,
Miroslav
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