EPICS Meeting 2005 ORNL

Rdb systems at SNS

Jeff Patton

and cast

April 27-29, 2005

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Status

• Good level of integration in:

– Acceleration Physics Application Programs

– Operations

– Document control

– Diagnostics

– Magnets

• Behind in the Controls arena but picking up steam

• Building accelerator while trying to design the software

• Better to have everything in place beforehand

• Increasing automation “Sure I’d love to use the data…You mean I have to put data in?”

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Software systems

• Jeri

• PV Logger

• SCORE (Save Compare and Restore)

• Network Registration

• Application physics programs

• Electronic Logbook

• MPS audit

• Power Supply configuration

• Operations administration

• Bypass tracking

• Web Reports

• Panosophy (Jefferson Lab)

• Electronic Checklist

• Cable installation

• DataStream (COTS)

• ProjectWise (COTS PDM)

• Primavera (COTS)

• Instrumentation

• ODBC and JDBC do your own thing

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Obligatory ERD

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IRMISBase

• Participating in the IRMISBase collaboration

• PVCrawler running at SNS on one boot server

• Added extensions for IOC version information

• Good test bed. Engineers from the 6 partner labs plus others. Still detecting new patterns

• Lots of data. Each reboot will initiate a full scan

• SNS is a descriptive and prescriptive model (primarily descriptive) so we have integrated the two

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Jeri (Java EPICS Rdb Interface)

• Now built using the new desktop based XAL user interface classes (Chris Fowlkes)

• Breakout of useful classes into the ../Tools for database connector, Rdb table editor, etc. Tom Pelaia considering breaking UI components into SourceForge package

• Controls framework branch planned as part of IRMISBase collaboration

• Model-Viewer-Controller (MVC) design for heavy and thin client user interfaces

• Heavy client deployed via Java Webstart to be platform and location independent

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Jeri – IOC’s

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Jeri - IOC

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Jeri - IOC

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Electronic Logbook

• New features for Operations

– Daily Orders; Required Reading

– Integrated Call List

• Improved thread display

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Electronic Logbook

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Operations

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Operations

• Logbook entry on IOC reboot

• EDM screen passes field values to OS shell script which calls Perl script which executes database stored procedure to make Logbook entry

• ODBC connectivity within EDM?

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Directions

• Continue to work with IRMISBase collaboration on additional crawlers, the hardware and cable crawlers

• Construct the XAL controls framework

• Build on existing infrastructure; more and more detailed reports

• More prescriptive tools