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TY - CONF AU - Charrue, P. AU - Buttner, M. AU - Ehm, F. AU - Jurcso, P. ED - Corvetti, Lou ED - Riches, Kathleen ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Improving Software Services Through Diagnostic and Monitoring Capabilities 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 - CERN's Accelerator Controls System is built upon a large set of software services which are vital for daily operations. It is important to instrument these services with sufficient diagnostic and monitoring capabilities to reduce the time to locate a problem and to enable pre-failure detection by surveillance of process internal information. The main challenges here are the diversity of programs (C/C++ and Java) , real-time constraints, the distributed environment and diskless systems. This paper describes which building blocks have been developed to collect process metrics and logs, software deployment and release information and how equipment/software experts today have simple and time-saving access to them using the DIAMON console. This includes the possibility to remotely inspect the process (build-time, version, start time, counters,..) and change its log levels for more detailed information. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1070 EP - 1072 KW - controls KW - software KW - diagnostics KW - monitoring KW - operation DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-148-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-WEPGF155 UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/wepgf155.pdf ER -