Receiving alarm notification from all records in database

[David Bracey via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi All -

I have created a support module that pushes all alarm state changes to an external message queue, but I am concerned about registering for so many database notifications.

I would be thankful if anyone could critique this practice, by having a look at my code and letting me know if this is a bad idea.

The project is here: https://github.com/fermi-ad/epics-alarm-push

And particularly you will want to look at the function init_after_db in this file: https://github.com/fermi-ad/epics-alarm-push/blob/main/AlarmPushApp/src/AlarmPush.cpp

I was suspicious that calling dbChannelCreate on potentially hundreds of records might be a problem.

Also, if there is a smarter way to do this, please advise.

Thanks in advance!

Dave Bracey

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory