ANL, Argonne, USA
The AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) project at ATLAS (Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System) complements the MANTRA (Measurement of Actinides Neutron TRAnsmutation) experimental campaign. To improve the precision and accuracy of AMS measurements at ATLAS, a new overall control system for AMS measurements needs to be implemented to reduce systematic errors arising from changes in transmission and ion source operation. The system will automatically and rapidly switch between different m/q settings, acquire the appropriate data and move on to the next setting. In addition to controlling the new multi-sample changer and laser ablation system, a master control program will communicate via the network to integrate the ATLAS accelerator control system, FMA control computer, and the data acquisition system.
ANL, Argonne, USA
As the complexity and scope of distributed control systems increase, so does the need for an ever increasing level of automated process monitoring. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate one method whereby the SNMP protocol combined with open-source management tools can be quickly leveraged to gain critical insight into any complex computing system. Specifically, we introduce an automated, fully customizable, web-based remote monitoring solution which has been implemented at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS). This collection of tools is not limited to only monitoring network infrastructure devices, but also to monitor critical processes running on any remote system. The tools and techniques used are typically available pre-installed or are available via download on several standard operating systems, and in most cases require only a small amount of configuration out of the box. High level logging, level-checking, alarming, notification and reporting is accomplished with the open source network management package OpenNMS, and normally requires a bare minimum of implementation effort by a non-IT user.