Author: Bree, M.
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WEM304 Status Monitoring of the EPICS Control System at the Canadian Light Source 667
 
  • G. Wright, M. Bree
    CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  
  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.  
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