R. KeitelEpics Collaboration Meeting, SLAC,

27-Apr-2005

RDB Use at TRIUMF/ISAC

State of the ISAC Radioactive Beam Facility

• half way ISAC-I routine operation (1.5 MeV/u) ISAC-II start installation (SC linac – two phases >> 6.5 Mev/u)

• no change in controls man-power (6 EPICS)• tools, tools, tools, …

EPICS Environment at ISAC

• EPICS 3.13.10 • EPICS 3.14.7 (softIOC, gateway)• vxWorks 5.5 (MV162, 486-PC104, Pentium-VME)• Capfast• Edd/dm >>> Edm• Trar archiver• Striptool, alh, …• Perl

• IOCs 20 >>30 ( ISAC) 10 (other systems)

• 80k EPICS records

EPICS Environment (2)

Development Solaris

Production file servers Solaris

User display servers Linux

Operator consoles Linux

User consoles Windows, Linux (X-servers)

RDB server Linux

Web server Linux

Web Servers

Database Servers

Development Computers

RDB - Basic Ideas

• Collaborating tools• Loose coupling• Minimize mission-critical items

Production File Servers

RDB + Tools

RDB“devices”

Web Application

Perl Tools

EPICS configuration files

Relational Database (PostgreSQL)

• Device classes Capfast I/O ports Macros

• Device instances Hardware addresses Macros Interlocks

• Hardware info PLC drops VME crates

• IOC info Boot area etc.

WebApp integrates RDB+Tools

• generate top-level Capfast schematics (device instantiation)• generate dm device control panels

Interlock display hyperlinks to other device control panels

• verify interlock implementation against specification• build configuration scripts (CAN-bus, setpoint restore, ..)• generate html-documentation (VME channels)• manage IOC configuration and roll-back

SUN (development)

IOCIOC

SUN (production)

bootFirewall

Test Area Boot Area:

- previous3

- previous2

- previous1

- current

BootconfigureTool

Development Area

Untested code

IOC configuration / rollback

SUN (production)

Test Area

Boot Area:

- previous3

- previous2

- previous1

- current Bootconfigure

Tool

Bootconfigure Tool (Perl – integrated in WebApp)

roll backupdate

boot area

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2

3

4

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2

3

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WebApp integrates RDB+Tools

• generate Capfast schematics (evice instantiation)• generate dm device control panels

Interlock display hyperlinks to other device control panels

• verify interlock implementation against specification• build configuration scripts (CAN-bus, setpoint restore, ..)• generate html-documentation (VME channels)• manage IOC configuration and roll-back• Interaction with other databases (QA, operations)• .db crawler (off-line – no RDB)• adl file crawler (no RDB)

What’s next (missing)

• Configuration scripts?• Request files?

• Cables etc.• Device locations IRMIS?• Integrate with module asset RDB