18–22 May 2015
1200 Molecular Plant Science Building, Michigan State University
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Status Monitoring of the EPICS Control System at the Canadian Light Source

20 May 2015, 09:45
15m
1200 Molecular Plant Science Building, Michigan State University

1200 Molecular Plant Science Building, Michigan State University

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Speaker

Mr Glen Wright (Canadian Light Source)

Description

The CLS uses the EPICS Distributed Control System (DCS) for control and feedback of a linear accelerator, booster ring, electron storage ring, and numerous x-ray beamlines. The number of host computers running EPICS IOC applications has grown to 200, and the number of IOC applications exceeds 700. The first part of this paper will present the challenges and current efforts to monitor and report the status of the control system itself by monitoring the EPICS network traffic. This approach does not require any configuration or application modification to report the currently active applications, and then provide notification of any changes. The second part will cover the plans to use the information collected dynamically to improve upon the information gathered by process variable crawlers for an IRMIS database, with the goal to eventually replace the process variable crawlers.

Primary author

Mr Glen Wright (Canadian Light Source)

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