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NADOT Victor via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:28:47 +0000

Thanks all for your answers.

dbli is exactly what I needed, thanks ! (I keep in my mind the 2 other
solutions ;) )

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Victor Nadot
Ingénieur Systèmes Electroniques Embarqués
CEA Saclay - DRF / IRFU / DIS / LDISC
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Le jeudi 14 décembre 2023 à 09:10 -0800, Tynan Ford a écrit :
> Hi Victor,
> 
> In case you are using the archiver appliance and channel
> finder/recsync, you can accomplish this via the channel finder AA
> processor -
>  https://github.com/ChannelFinder/ChannelFinderService/blob/master/sr
> c/main/resources/application.properties#L96
> 
> Best,
> Tynan
> 
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 7:24 AM Pearson, Matthew via Tech-talk
> <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Hi Victor,
> > 
> > If you use a recent version of base, you can list tags on the IOC
> > shell and write them to a file:
> > 
> > epics> dbli *archive*
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SADet3:Status info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01, VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SADet3:StatCtrl info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01,
> > VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SIDet3:STATUS info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01, VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SIDet3:STATCTRL info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01,
> > VAL")
> > epics>
> > epics> dbli *archive* > /tmp/archive_list.txt
> > 
> > cat /tmp/archive_list.txt
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SADet3:Status info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01, VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SADet3:StatCtrl info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01,
> > VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SIDet3:STATUS info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01, VAL")
> > ST99:Det:IOC_SIDet3:STATCTRL info(archive, "Monitor, 00:00:01,
> > VAL")
> > 
> > Then you can parse that list and generate an archive configuration.
> > Or, modify an archiver to be able to read that format.
> > 
> > We use a Python script to parse the database files, but if we were
> > starting today I'd probably use the above method as the first step
> > in extracting the info tags.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Simon
> > Rose via Tech-talk
> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 5:23 AM
> > To: NADOT Victor <VICTOR.NADOT at cea.fr>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: is there an EPICS module to
> > makePvToArchiveFromDbInfo() ?
> > 
> > Hi Victor -
> > 
> > There is one that we have used at ESS that might serve your
> > purpose:
> > 
> > https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.esss.lu.se_icshwi_iocmetadata&d=DwIGaQ&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=aEDRFW1J1RKf3L4Vy5iLgaY2FJpZ2TV1XDtc_tKxW00&m=vNISIrtmTSvaQHTNeWDl1p15L43in4-yA1-44ChtrvumzGayCjG4ekJITH08uJbN&s=CH3zpoO636P0uNZGzJnegnwLIRfFkNbkML82l2Cap0E&e=
> > 
> > Note that it uses EPICS 7 NT types. There is pretty good
> > documentation in the README file in the repository.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Simon
> > 
> > On 2023-12-14, 10:29, "Tech-talk on behalf of NADOT Victor via
> > Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov
> > <mailto:tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of
> > tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > is there an EPICS module to, in the same way as
> > `makeAutosaveFileFromDbInfo()` works, generate (at IOC boot, so
> > macro are resolved) a file with a list of PV names to archive from
> > the information provided in the record `info()` field ?
> > 
> > 
> > ```epics
> > record(ai, "MyPv") {
> > info(archive, "YES")
> > }
> > ```
> > 
> > 
> > This would be a nice tool to then copy/past all the pv list files
> > to archive in the archiver.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the answer,
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Victor Nadot
> > Ingénieur Systèmes Electroniques Embarqués CEA Saclay - DRF / IRFU
> > / DIS / LDISC Bâtiment 472 - pièce 120
> > + 33 (0)1 69 08 41 88
> > + 33 (0)6 45 03 12 54
> > 
> > 
> > 

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