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TY - CONF AU - Fernandes, R.N. AU - Gysin, S.R. AU - Korhonen, T. AU - Pavleski, M. AU - Persson, J.A. AU - Regnell, S. AU - Sah, S. ED - White, Karen S. ED - Brown, Kevin A. ED - Dyer, Philip S. ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Management of IOCs at ESS J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2019, New York, NY, USA, 05-11 October 2019 CY - New York, NY, USA T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 17 LA - english AB - The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a neutron research facility based in Sweden that will be in operation in 2023. It is expected to have around 1500 IOCs controlling both the machine and end-station instruments. To manage the IOCs, an application called IOC Factory was developed at ESS. It provides a consistent and centralized approach on how IOCs are configured, generated, browsed and audited. The configuration allows users to select EPICS module versions of interest, and set EPICS environment variables and macros for IOCs. The generation automatically creates IOCs according to configurations. Browsing retrieves information on when, how and why IOCs were generated and by whom. Finally, auditing tracks changes of generated IOCs deployed locally. To achieve these functionalities, the IOC Factory relies on two other applications: the Controls Configuration Database (CCDB) and the ESS EPICS Environment (E3). The first stores information about IOCs, devices controlled by these, and required EPICS modules and snippets, while the second stores snippets needed to generate IOCs (st.cmd files). Combined, these applications enable ESS to successfully manage IOCs with minimum effort. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1204 EP - 1208 KW - EPICS KW - factory KW - controls KW - interface KW - database DA - 2020/08 PY - 2020 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-209-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA048 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2019/papers/wepha048.pdf ER -