Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:24:55 -0800

On 12/10/19 8:22 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> P4P 3.4.1 is available on github.com[1] and pypi.org[2].

How could I forget...

https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/p4p

courtesy of Hugo Slepika

> In addition to the usual fixes,
> this release is the first to include a PVAccess gateway (aka. proxy).  This is installed
> as the "pvagw" executable by both epics module and setuptools builds.
> Documentation[3] is available.
> 
> The feature highlights are configurable access control (aka access security) including
> the use of "roles" (aka. *NIX group names) in addition to user names.  Also logging of
> Put operations.  A number of gateway status PVs are added, including accounting of network
> bandwidth used by clients/servers/PVs.
> 
> This PVA gateway is intended to replace the prototype gateway from the pva2pva module.
> Both use a similar JSON based configuration file.  Config files for the prototype should
> work with this new gateway.
> 
> 
> Thanks to SLAC for sponsoring this work, and to Bruce Hill specifically for his stress testing.
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/mdavidsaver/p4p/releases/tag/3.4.1
> [2] https://pypi.org/project/p4p/
> [3] https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/gw.html
> [4] https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System