Hello Pierrick,
We had this kind of issues at NSLS-2. I usually go to the log files (archiver-installation-directory/engine/logs) to troubleshoot those PVs (grep pvName *). In our cases, most issues are actually related to the IOCs after rebooting: the timestamps of not-auto-reconnected
PVs are totally wrong; the record types are changed; the PVs are updating faster; etc.
You do not need to remove those PVs to re-archive them. I usually pause then resume them. If you do want to remove those PVs being archived from the web interface, I think there is a pop-up window warning if you want to delete the data as well. It is a common
sense that the historical archived data should be kept unless users specifically delete them.
HTH,
Yong
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Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 11:40 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: archiver appliance - PVs not reconnecting
This problem is similar to
https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2020/msg01951.php, but not the same.
I have an archiver appliance which has been happily running on a Alma
Linux server for several months. We had a
maintenance shutdown which turned off the IOC servers, but the archiver
remained active. When the system
came back up again, ~150 PVs, which I verified as alive and active,
would not reconnect, whereas thousands more
did reconnect as usual. Any ideas?
Question: If I remove these PVs from the archiver and then add them back
in, will we lose historical data?
Many thanks,
Pierrick
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