Re: Need help with Phoebus Alarm E-logger and Interface to the E-mail

[Giovanni Savarese LNL via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hello,

if you want at this link you can find the thread of a similar discussion 
about the alarm-logger with a link of a possible docker compose solution 
https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2023/msg01035.php.

If the link does not work here is the link to the repository: 
https://github.com/giosava94/docker-phoebus-alarm.

Hope this helps you,
Giovanni S


On 21/07/23 15:57, Charles Jenkins via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My name is Merrill Jenkins and I am working on the Fermilab Mu2e 
> Experiment.
>
> I have been working on adapting CSS Phoebus to monitor and control the 
> Cosmic Ray Veto (CRV) for this experiment.  Currently, there are no 
> electronics or software installed for the CRV at the experiment, so I 
> have put together a simulated system that uses an EPICS solftIoc.  I 
> have been able to set up Phoebus to display read-back values for the 
> elements of the CRV detector.  I have been able to setup the 
> alarm-server for these elements. (I have installed zookeeper, kafka 
> and I have been able to configure the alarms with alarm-server.sh.)  
> The alarm tree is populated, the alarm area panel works, the 
> annunciation panel works and so does the alarm table.
>
> Phoebus will run for a while and then hang, especially if I change the 
> value of an element so that it trips an alarm.  It seems that Phoebus 
> will hang if there are problems with the alarms package. I think, that 
> in this case, the program stops working because the alarm package 
> wants to log this change.  (But, I could be wrong.) So I am trying to 
> setup the alarm-logger.  However, I am not making any headway with 
> setting up the alarm-logger.  Over the past year I have looked over 
> posted documentation and was able to solve many problems  However, I 
> don't see any hints in the documentation on how to setup the 
> alarm-logger after installing elasticserver.  Could someone point me 
> to how to set up the alarm-logger?  (Also, if this is not the problem, 
> could someone point me to what this problem might be and how to solve 
> it?)
>
> A second issue, is how to include the electronics logbook (we are 
> using ECLAPI) into Phoebus for possible direct entries from Phoebus.  
> I see that there are several packages including "elog" and "olog".  Is 
> there an easy way to adapt a new electronic logbook so that it may be 
> accessed by Phoebus?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Thanks,
> Merrill Jenkins