Re: cs-studio linux version that works with archiver

[Lucas Russo via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Astrid,

We, at LNLS, are using the ESS version available here, but others should work just fine: https://artifactory.esss.lu.se/artifactory/CS-Studio/production/4.6.1.25/

You can manually change the Databrowser settings (and others) by either:

1) editing the file "configuration/plugin_customization.ini" inside the CS-Studio installation directory, like this:

# Data Browser
# Removal of these settings results in empty defaults
# URLs to suggest in the "Archives" view
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/urls=pbraw://10.0.38.42/retrieval|LNLS Archiver
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/use_auto_scale=true
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/plot_bins=10
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/request_type=RAW

# Default data sources for newly added channels
# Format:  <name>|<key>|<url>
# xnds: URLs use the key. Other URLs might ignore the key.
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/archives=LNLS Archiver|1|pbraw://10.0.38.42/retrieval
org.csstudio.trends.databrowser3/use_default_archives=true

2) inside CS-Studio by going to "edit -> preferences -> CSS Applications -> Trends -> Data Browser"

If you are familiar with Ansible you can look at our CS-Studio role that should install everything you need

with your custom settings: https://github.com/lnls-sirius/lnls-ansible/tree/master/roles/lnls-ans-role-cs-studio

The archiver variables for databrowser are the ones located here: https://github.com/lnls-sirius/lnls-ansible/blob/master/roles/lnls-ans-role-cs-studio/defaults/main.yml#L32

Hope this helps,

Cheers!

Lucas

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:54 AM astrid morreale via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hello, 

In my attempt to retrieve archived data with a viewer (other than archiver viewer) I downloaded two different  linux 4.3 versions of  cs-studio from here:

http://download.controlsystemstudio.org/release/4.3/

and I have  tried following using the instructions in https://slacmshankar.github.io/epicsarchiver_docs/csstudio.html .

However the last two cs-versions versions I downloaded are missing essential things like  the trend tab (and thus I cannot add my pbraw::... retrieval)

Could someone recommend a pre-compiled version of cs-studio that works with the archiver, or point me to the plugins etc that the generic cs studio is missing?

I did check that the sns-css version of cs-studio has the trend tabs but then it is heavily configured for sns operations.

kind regards and thanks in advance

Astrid

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Astrid Morreale
Staff Scientist Subatomic Physics Group.  
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
astrid at lanl.gov