Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 1 Sep 2020 14:17:24 -0700

Hi Jackie,

   At ALS and ALS-U, we are evaluating the Alarm services (I called
them as Alarm Trio) within ELK. We would like to keep ELK due to
ChannelFinder Services and potential Olg-ES services also. Due to the
limited of our resources, we stay inside the EPICS community tools,
not for developing something new from ourselves.

  You may check how we "setup" these Alarm trio services with Phoebus
at https://github.com/jeonghanlee/phoebus-env

  If you want to have a zoom meeting with us, I can arrange a meeting
with you later.  Probably I can explain the reason why we would like
to use them in detail during the meeting.

  Best,
  Han

P.S. my lab email is jeonglee at lbl.gov

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:27 AM Garrahan, Jacqueline via Tech-talk
<tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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> My name is Jackie Garrahan and I work at SLAC’s TID Advanced Control System group. We are investigating options for the next generation alarm and logging systems for the LCLS and would like to poll the community to get a sense of what is being used elsewhere. At present, we use ALH (AlarmHandler) for alarms along with an IOC to provide PVs so the alarm tree can be displayed also with PyDM and EDM. As for log messages, we have a custom software developed in-house that receives messages (EPICS Log and other applications) via socket and insert them into an Oracle Database which is later consumed.
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> On the alarm section we know of the existence of BEAST and Phoebus Alarm Server. For logs, it seems like the ELK stack is a strong candidate but there is also alerta.io and possibly others. I would appreciate if you could share your experience with tools that you are currently using or also evaluating.
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> Thanks,
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> Jackie

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System