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RIS citation export for WEM304: Status Monitoring of the EPICS Control System at the Canadian Light Source

TY - CONF
AU - Wright, G.
AU - Bree, M.
ED - Corvetti, Lou
ED - Riches, Kathleen
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Status Monitoring of the EPICS Control System at the Canadian Light Source
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015
C1 - Melbourne, Australia
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3 - 15
LA - english
AB - 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.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 667
EP - 668
KW - controls
KW - EPICS
KW - network
KW - database
KW - status
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-148-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-WEM304
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/wem304.pdf
ER -