Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Thanks Abdalla, seems like it shouldn’t be too much trouble.  I have tried stopping the tomcat instances, making sure the environment variable is set correctly (I did see in the policies.py file where the paths are set).  I tried to restart the archiver appliance and also re-archived the pv (paused/deleted) but it still seems to be going to the old spot.  It looks like the file I am using is from Hans site-specific install where it was hardcoded the paths actually for sts/mts/lts.  I tried to just change the directory to see if it would work but still no success in getting the archiver to save the files in a different directory for sts.

 

Adam

 

 

Hi Adam

 

I think it should be easy by changing the macro variables, I think we did this before and it was working, just make sure that you have read/write permissions on the new locations otherwise all your PVs will remain in the “Appliance Assigned” state. For your 2^nd question, STORAGE_TOP is optional, the three storage locations definitions are independent, it is not mandatory for the locations or mount points to share the same “STORAGE_TOP”, you can specify each store in the appropriate mount point in your setup.

 

If you have enough RAM on your server, it is best practice to setup the STS using a RAM disk (the tempfs filesystem), this will improve performance on data retrieval for recent periods.

 

Best Regards,

 

Abdalla Al-Dalleh

Control Engineer, SESAME

Phone: +962-788183296

Email: Abdalla.ahmad at sesame.org.jo

 

 

Hey All,

 

I am planning on changing where our STS MTS and LTS are stored.  Most likely will use STS MTS on the local SSD I have but wanted to move our LTS over to a NAS or some external storage.  Wanted to know if there are any pitfalls to setting this up or is at as easy as changing up these values in the archappl.conf?  Also was wondering about what STORAGE_TOP does if say my LONG_TERM_FOLDER does not share the same STORAGE_TOP directory for example?

 

ARCHAPPL_STORAGE_TOP="/arch"

ARCHAPPL_SHORT_TERM_FOLDER="/arch/sts/ArchiverStore"

ARCHAPPL_MEDIUM_TERM_FOLDER="/arch/mts/ArchiverStore"

ARCHAPPL_LONG_TERM_FOLDER="/Network/lts/StorageExample "

 

Thanks,

Adam