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Jan Hatje, DESYCSS – Control System Studio 1

EPICS collaboration meeting 2008

CSS – Control System Studio Update

EPICS collaboration meeting 2008Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), 13th March 2008

Jan Hatje, Matthias Clausen, Helge Rickens DESY / MKS-2



Overview and Current State

• Version 1.0.0 of CSS (Core) is now available

• A headless build checks every night all CSS plugins for errors

• CSS Beta with the most recent features is on the CSS website

• The Alarm System (from IOC to SMS) is implemented and tested by the operators

• Reliability of Synoptic Display Studio is improved



CSS Design

Eclipse Runtime

Java Virtual Machine

IDE with CSS applications CSS UI

CSS Core UI

Eclipse RCP UI

Eclipse IDE

CSS Headless

Eclipse RCP

CSS Core

CSS appl.CSS appl.CSS appl.

CSS appl.CSS appl.

UI CSS appl.



Headless Build I

• Errors in CSS plugins are detected automatically

• The headless build process is not used for deployment yet

• Ant scripts for headless build are predefined in eclipse

• The selection of plugins for the headless build is set in a CVS project

• A program checks the log files and sends status mails to the developers



CVS

Headless Build II

CSS Plugins

Developer

Developer

eclipseHeadless Build

log files

CheckHeadless Build

Headless BuildConfiguration

CheckHB.xml

CVS

CSS Plugins

status mail

status mail

Detailed description: csstudio.org → Developers Corner → Headless Build



CSS Beta• Version with the latest features of CSS

plugins• Not as reliable as the current CSS

release• CSS Beta Update Site has only two

features: global plugins and plugins for the DESY environment

• CSS Update Site is possibly not compatible with CSS Beta

• CSS Beta download: csstudio.org → Download → CSS Beta

• Currently there are just a few new features in SDS



Alarm System I

Log Alarms• IOC Task ‘Log Alarms’ monitors EPICS records for alarm status changes • Sends alarm messages to the Interconnection Server via UDP• Handles a set of Interconnection Server connections for fallback

Interconnection Server• Headless CSS application• Sends alarm messages to the JMS Server • Updates the persistent store on the LDAP Server• Controlled via XMPP commands



Alarm System II

Alarm Tree• Representation of persistent store• Shows the status of each record

Alarm Table• Shows alarm messages chronologically• Search in alarm history

Alarm Management System• Distribution of alarm messages to operators via SMS, Mail, Voice• Group management of alarm message receivers• Configurable filters for different criteria• Easily extensible (new filter types, new receiver types)



Alarm System IIIOpenJMS Server

ALARM

TLOG

T

Filter Manager

Filter

IOC

Jms2OraLDAP Server

Alarm archive

CSS UI Instance

Action

SMS, Mail

Alarm Tree Alarm, Log displays

Alarm Message System

configuration

configuration

CSS Headless Instance

Interconnection Server

A test installation of the LDAP- and JMS-Server for external user are now available. For the settings please look on our CSS web site.



Synoptic Display Studio

• Synoptic Display Studio (SDS) is a set of CSS plugins• SDS is based on GEF• Easy to add new widgets• Connection to control system via DAL• Initialiser for widgets • CVS support for the management of displays• ADL converter to reuse MEDM Displays



Synoptic Display Studio

• Align, ruler, snap to geometry, grid, ... functionality• Order of overlapping widgets (‘To front’, ‘One step to

front’, …)• Multiple layers to organize large displays• Aliases for process variables• Edit properties for many widgets • SNL Documentation: Menu ‘Help’ → ’Help Contents’ →

’CSS Applications’



Synoptic Display Studio UI

WorkspaceEditor field

Property View

Widgetpalette



CVS

SDS CVS support

CSS Plugins

Developer(Using and editingDisplays)CVS

DisplayRepository

Developer(Using and editingDisplays)

Operator(Using Displays)

Operator(Using Displays)

Update (periodically) Commit and

Update

• CVS repository holds all displays files• Operators get periodically an update that they are using always the current display

versions• No parallel versions of displays (Developers do not work on copies of the displays)• History of all changes



SDS

SDS Dynamic aspectsDynamisation of a property means that the property depends on a

value of a process variable• Dynamisation is indicated by a gear wheel• Every widget property can be dynamic• Initialiser sets dynamic aspects for default properties• Rules for control system connections (calculate e. g. a double value to color) • User can add new rules (JavaScript rules in workspace)• Time widget executes rules periodically

Control system

Processvariable

DataAccessLayer Rule Widget



Display‚Overview‘

SDS Action Data

Actions are related to widgets

• A widget can hold many actions• Actions are inherited (Actions of

display are available in all widgets)

Action type ‘Open as View/Shell’ShowFacility A

ShowFacility B

Display ‚Facility $‘

Display‚Facility A‘

Display‚Facility B‘

Open Displaywith Alias ‚A‘

Open Displaywith Alias ‚B‘

Action type ‘Send Value’

• Opens a display from workspace• Call new display with parameters

• Writes a value to a process variable



SDS Example



Outlook, Further information

• Implementation of strip chart and ‘16 bit’ widget• Default values as parameters for rules• Visualization for Channel Access Security in SDS• Improve documentation for user and developer• Get help information for the active object• EDM converter for SDS• For more information or to download CSS please see the CSS

website: http://css.desy.de• To get the CSS applications please use the update mechanism:

Help → Software Updates → Find and Install → Search for new features

• For questions please contact: [email protected], [email protected]

- Thank you -

http://css.desy.de/

mailto:[email protected]

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