Re: MTCA4 HW management

[Sonya Hoobler <sonya@slac.stanford.edu>]

Dear Han,

In fact, SLAC does have a few MicroTCA systems. We did develop EPICS 
monitoring for these systems, though it was never completed and still 
contains some known bugs. This software discovers the shelf configuration 
and monitors the shelf sensors.

We plan to fix these early this year and to add support for some of our 
other IPMI-based systems. We would be happy to share this code with you at 
that time.

Best regards,
  Sonya

Sonya Hoobler
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Instrumentation and Controls Division


> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Jeong Han Lee <citadel.lee@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I am looking for any existent EPICS support of MicroTCA HW management or
> > any plan for that. I've heard that SLAC and DESY heavily (?) use that
> > platform so far, but there are no EPICS related activities I can find in
> > teck-talks and others.
> >
> >   Currently, my concern is to to maintain all MTCA4 HW (Chassis, Carrier
> > Hub, Backplane, Power Modules, Cooling Units, etc), because MTCA.4 HW is
> > still unstable (I mean comparing with any VME HW (I might be wrong) and ESS
> > will use several hundred MicroTCA Chassis (crate).
> >
> > This maintenance has the following activities:
> >
> >   * monitor/change a status of MicroTCA HW though EPICS
> >   * update/revert the corresponding firmware through EPICS
> >   * all activities are recorded into a EPICS archive service (AA) (it is
> > clear evidence with EPICS)
> >
> >   So, we can scale this activities up to massive MicroTCA HW easily.
> >
> >   Please let me know if you know much better idea than my naive one, and
> > would you recommend what you're using?
> >
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >   Han