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Tim Mooney <[email protected]> · Fri, 13 May 2005 12:33:24 -0500

Rees, NP (Nick) wrote:
All,
We have a version of vxStats that seems to come from Carl Lionberger at
SNS and I am currently trying to convert it to R3.14. Has anyone already
done this?
The real point of this missive is, however, that it has a couple of

functions which traverse the internal CA structures to return the number

of Channel access clients and the number of CA connections. This is a

really useful diagnostic, but I really don't think having this sort of

thing outside of the CA code-base is very good, and feel that CA should

probably provide a few pieces of diagnostic information like this via an

API. 
Is it possible to do this? If I do it and forward on the code, can it be
integrated into base?
Cheers,
Nick Rees

Principal Software Engineer Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430

Diamond Light Source Fax: +44 (0)1235-446713

We got a copy of 3.14-compatible vxStats from SNS via the following URL:
   http://ics-web1.sns.ornl.gov/share/vxStats314.tar.gz
We fixed a few little glitches, added MEDM display files, and have
included the resulting module

in synApps 5.1
(http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/synApps/tar/synApps_5_1.tar.gz). Also,

vxStats uses the timestamp record, which isn't in any 3.14 module I know
of, so I stuck a

copy in synApps' std module.
Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)963-1860
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

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