Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

>Dear all, 

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>I start an soft IOC server in local computer and intend to monitor its running status by using alive record.

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>The IP address of the soft IOC is 127.0.0.1, then for alive record I set:

>epicsEnvSet("ALIVE_SERVER","127.0.0.1") in st.cmd and I use its default example db as a test, then I start the alive record.

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>My problem is when "dbpr aliveEx:alive", the SEVR is always INVALID, I have no idea if I miss something and which program should I need to install to make the alive record work.

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>Thank you very much in advance and an example step for starting alive record is appreciated.

The alive record by itself isn't very useful.  You need a remote server that listens for the heartbeat UDP messages generated by the alive record, which is what is specified by ALIVE_SERVER above.  When I wrote the record, I assumed people would want to write their own remote server code for interacting with alive record from IOCs, although I'm not sure if that happened much. 

I released the server code as used by the BCDA group of the Advanced Photon Source earlier this year, which I wrote when I was in that group.  You can find information on it and how to use it at https://epics-alive-server.github.io/ . 

About SEVR, I unfortunately ignored alarms when I wrote the record, as alarms didn't make sense for how it worked.  I will look into fixing those alarm fields.  So you can ignore SEVR being INVALID, as it doesn't signify a problem.

Dohn Arms