Available Documents

• The Requirements document:
  • HTML: [sectioned] or [one big page]
  • [PS]
  • [PDF]

• Copy of spread sheet, maintained by Bob Ducar (ducar at fnal dot gov), of all primary beam devices. [XLS file]. (It is readable with gnumeric).

• Albert Erwin's initial list of monitors.

• A console screen shot from Wally Kissel showing a device to use for testing array outputs.

Related software

• How to talk to the rotorooter and the rotorooter section of the user manual.

Related links

• The API (and XML-RPC server URL) for the polling and callback methods, respectively:

        http://www-bd.fnal.gov/xmlrpc/Accelerator
        http://www-bd.fnal.gov/xmlrpc/Export
  

• XML-RPC for C/C++ will be used for the XML-RPC implementation.
• Frontier::RPC, XML-RPC in Perl. May be used for initial connection process startup.
• TCP Wrappers may be used for limiting which hosts access callback listener.

Still to do

1. For the rotorooter connection, I am currently masquerading as the DCS. Changes to the rotorooter need to be done to fix this.

2. Work needs to be done on the XML-RPC server end to allow for array-like devices to be read out (namely, the SWICs). Currenly only scalar-like devices can be read out.

3. I still don't know the best way to get a useful timestamp into the data. I can always just take the system time, but it would be preferable to have a GPS time stamp with a known correlation.

4. Testing with real beam devices, in particular, real triggering need to be done. I've been using things like outdoor temperature and a simple 1.89 sec recurring timer trigger.

Misc. Notes

1. Use crypto card (which latest openssh seems to handle) to go to minos1.fnal.gov

2. Ssh from minos1.fnal.gov to phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov:

   bv@minos1:bv> ssh -l bviren -v -g -L 1987:phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov:1987 phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov 
   

3. Ssh tunnel from phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov to minos.phy.bnl.gov:

   bviren@phyppro1:bviren> ssh -l bviren -v -g -L 1987:minos.phy.bnl.gov:1987 minos.phy.bnl.gov