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Control System Configuration Management at PSI Large Research Facilities

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R.A. Krempaska, A.G. Bertrand, H. Lutz
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The control system of the PSI accelerator facilities and their beamlines consists mainly of the so called Input Output Controllers (IOCs) running EPICS. There are several flavors of EPICS IOCs at PSI running on different CPUs, different underlying operating systems and different EPICS versions. We have hundreds of IOCs which control the facilities at PSI. The goal of the Control system configuration management is to provide a set of tools to allow a consistent and uniform configuration for all IOCs. In this context the Oracle database contains all hardware-specific information including the CPU type, operating system or EPICS version. The installation tool connects to Oracle database. Depending on the IOC-type a set of files (or symbolic links) are created which connect to the required operating system, libraries or EPICS configuration files in the boot directory. In this way a transparent and user-friendly IOC installation is achieved. The control system export can check the IOC installation, boot information, as well as the status of loaded EPICS process variables by using Web applications.

Poster THPPC017 [0.405 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
THPPC017	Control System Configuration Management at PSI Large Research Facilities	1125
	R.A. Krempaska, A.G. Bertrand, H. Lutz PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The control system of the PSI accelerator facilities and their beamlines consists mainly of the so called Input Output Controllers (IOCs) running EPICS. There are several flavors of EPICS IOCs at PSI running on different CPUs, different underlying operating systems and different EPICS versions. We have hundreds of IOCs which control the facilities at PSI. The goal of the Control system configuration management is to provide a set of tools to allow a consistent and uniform configuration for all IOCs. In this context the Oracle database contains all hardware-specific information including the CPU type, operating system or EPICS version. The installation tool connects to Oracle database. Depending on the IOC-type a set of files (or symbolic links) are created which connect to the required operating system, libraries or EPICS configuration files in the boot directory. In this way a transparent and user-friendly IOC installation is achieved. The control system export can check the IOC installation, boot information, as well as the status of loaded EPICS process variables by using Web applications.
	Poster THPPC017 [0.405 MB]