Process PINI-Record again as soon as device is reconnected

["Dr. Simon Friederich via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Dear EPICS community,

I have a lot of records that I only need to process once, e.g. to retrieve an identification string or configuration info that I don't need to SCAN periodically.
Normally I just use a field(PINI, "YES") and this information is in the record.

But there are cases, when this procedure fails, e.g. in case the IOC is already running and the device is not "ready" before iocInit. Then these records are invalid and I need to process them manually.

Can you give me a best practice advice on how to deal with this situation?

In most cases I use asyn + streamdevice to talk to my devices so I guess might be some kind of signal comming from asyn "hey, the device is back online, now you can (re)process your PINI-records"?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards
Simon