Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Konrad, Martin via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 2 Sep 2020 13:57:41 +0000

Hi Jackie,
At FRIB we are currently moving from BEAST to the Phoebus Alarm Server.
In my experience the Phoebus alarm system is much more reliable than
BEAST and shows better behavior when used with larger numbers of alarms.

For logging we're using the ELK stack. So far our IOCs pass log messages
directly to a central log server (actually a cluster to improve
availability) through plain TCP connections. This is not ideal. If we
find the time we want to switch towards an approach that hands over log
messages to a proper logging service/library which takes care of
delivering them to the central log server (I remember Michael also had a
few lines of code to do so). This would be more reliable in case network
connections are interrupted temporarily. This would potentially also
come with the opportunity to store logs locally when the log server is
not available and transfer them once the log server is reachable again.

-Martin

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Martin Konrad
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
640 South Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA
Tel. 517-908-7253
Email: konrad at frib.msu.edu

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System