Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pearson, MR (Matthew)" <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:35:20 +0100

Hi,

We're just about to try procServ, in combination with devIocStats, to
restart soft IOCs remotely. As Stephanie says, devIocStats call
epicsExit, which kills the process, and then procServ can automatically
restart the IOC after some time (which is configurable).

Cheers,
Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allison, Stephanie
> Sent: 15 April 2009 19:43
> To: Emmanuel Mayssat; [email protected]
> Cc: Mahajan Kirti; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Remote IOC reboot Was(EPICS for implementation 
> of RemoteProcedurecall)
> 
> Hi Emmanuel,
> 
> There are some device support packages that provide for 
> rebooting/restarting an IOC via record.  For instance, devIocStats:
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/package/epics/site/devIocStats/
> provides a sub record that calls epicsExit for soft iocs, 
> reboot for vxWorks iocs, and bsp_reset/rtemsReboot for RTEMS iocs.  
> 
> Stephanie Allison
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Mayssat
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:26 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Mahajan Kirti; [email protected]
> > Subject: Remote IOC reboot Was(EPICS for implementation of 
> > Remote Procedurecall)
> > 
> > S,
> > 
> > Could you describe your interface (from a user/operator 
> > perspective) to
> > your IOC reboot interface? I may actually be interested with that.
> > 
> > In short I want to know:
> > Can you reboot/control a remote IOC with the push of a GUI button?
> > 
> > --
> > Emmanuel
> > 
> > > We use (XML)RPC for some of our control system 
> > (specifically to reboot
> > > IOC's under procServ), and have considered the use of an 
> > IOC with Stream
> > > Device, to produce PV's which would communicate directly to 
> > one of the
> > > RPC servers over the network.
> > > 
> > > This would be a round-about way to use EPICS for RPC's
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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