Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pearson, MR (Matthew)" <[email protected]> · Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:45:51 -0000

Hi,

Thanks. Yes, I'm not sure we would need to use conserver if we had
procServ. I get the impression that the only reason other sites had the
IOC->procServ->conserver layering was to preserve to conserver
interface.

Cheers,
Matthew 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rivers [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 12 February 2009 12:59
> To: Pearson, MR (Matthew); [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Console access and managing soft IOCs
> 
> We recently started using procServ for both our VME IOCs and 
> soft IOCs.  It's great, since multiple users can be seeing 
> the console at once, and logging is done.  The VME IOCs are 
> connected to terminal servers, so the procServ process for 
> them is a telnet session to the particular terminal server port.
>  
> I don't know much abound conserver.  What would it be used 
> for in the scheme your described:
> IOC
> procServ
> conserver
> 
> I have not tried running either under Cygwin.
>  
> Mark
> 
>  
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Pearson, MR (Matthew)
> Sent: Thu 2/12/2009 6:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Console access and managing soft IOCs
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading over old tech-talk messages about conserver and
> procServ.
> 
> Currently at Diamond we are making use of conserver to log and provide
> access to terminal server ports. We use the Cyclades 
> AlterPath ACS32 to
> provide console access to our VME IOCs.
> 
> We'd like to start logging and providing better console access to our
> soft IOCs (especially since we are increasing our use of soft IOCs).
> 
> As I understand it this would be possible using conserver with screen,
> and it seems fairly flexible and straight forward to use.
> 
> However, I get the impression that using procServ as the soft IOC
> 'screen' layer is more reliable, and is the preferred way. So the soft
> IOC layers would be:
> 
> IOC
> procServ
> conserver
> 
> Then we have conserver as the unified console interface for both VME
> IOCs and soft IOCs. procServ also then gives us the added benefit of
> process management.
> 
> Regarding MS Windows IOCs. Has anyone tried running screen or procServ
> under Cygwin?
> 
> Does anybody have any recommendations in this area? Or experience that
> would be worth sharing?
> 
> As an aside, has anyone starting to use event correlators to 
> process IOC
> log files?
> (eg. http://www.estpak.ee/~risto/sec/)
> 
> I would be interested in using such a system to identify 
> failed reboots,
> failed card configuration, serious error messages, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Matthew
> 
> DLS Controls
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