Control System Studio - Introduction

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1 Control System Studio - Introduction Kay Kasemir ORNL/SNS kasemirk@ornl.gov 2012, April at SLAC Managed by UT-Battelle

2 What is CSS? a) To End Users: Integrated control system user interface b) To Developers: A Collaboration An Architecture A Toolkit Managed by UT-Battelle

3 CSS: A Collaboration Started 2006 between DESY and SNS Joined by CLS, APS, BNL,, Diamond,, KEK/J-PARC? Code repository, Wiki, Mailing lists 3 Managed by UT-Battelle

4 CSS: Control System Architecture Portable environment (Windows, Linux, OS X) Excellent (free!) development tools Extensible bundling: Plug-Ins, Extension points, Registry Rich Client Platform (RCP) for windows, menus, online help, preferences, online update, 4 Managed by UT-Battelle

5 CSS: Software Toolkit It s BIG Repository: ~ lines of Java Code Structured 70 core plugins, about 300 total About 40% of code is comments and formatting You pick what you need SNS uses ~ (20%) Perl cloc tool on July 2011 cs-studio3.0 repo and SNS source snapshot, excluding zip files 5 Managed by UT-Battelle

6 Basic CSS Tools Probe Current value of a PV EPICS PV Tree Trace PV links Both: Resize Drop-downs keep previous entries 6 Managed by UT-Battelle

7 Example Work Flow: React to Alarm CSS includes an alarm system. Operator notices an alarm 7 Managed by UT-Battelle

8 Example Work Flow: React to Alarm.. Context menu of alarm ( right click ) 8 Managed by UT-Battelle

9 Example Work Flow: React to Alarm 9 Managed by UT-Battelle Inspect history of PV, annotate,

10 Finally: Data Browser E-Log After inspecting alarm PV s history, post commented plot to E-Log! 10 Managed by UT-Battelle

11 Integrated Help, Preferences Uniform access to settings, searchable help Applications Support Libraries Logging Control System access 11 Managed by UT-Battelle

12 PV Fields Viewer Detailed configuration info for a Info in Oracle, live data from EPICS 12 Managed by UT-Battelle

13 PV Fields Viewer: Site-Specific? Fine, but how would I benefit from an SNSspecific tool? It s Pluggable! You can provide the glue code to your EPICS config in RDB, LDAP, text files SNS Implementation Get info from Oracle PV Fields API get info for PV Name Your Implementation Get info from 13 Managed by UT-Battelle

14 Other Pluggable Examples APIs Live Data Access Historic Data Access Authentication... API Implementations EPICS Channel Access, Simulated Chan.Arch XML-RPC, RDB, Kerberos, LDAP Some Implementation Another Implementation 14 Managed by UT-Battelle

15 Two Views of CSS Developer Understands Toolkit, Architecture, Java, Eclipse Installs CSS in control room Offers CSS download for local office users Extends CSS for local needs End User Uses CSS Managed by UT-Battelle

16 So What is CSS? Various control-system tools combined into a consistent product Excellent for end-users! 16 Managed by UT-Battelle Based on

17 Links CSS Eclipse 17 Managed by UT-Battelle