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Subject: Re: No monitor refresh
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: Hinko Kocevar <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:21 -0400
Hello Hinko,

hm ..... it's an I/O scanned mbbi connected to asyn, and I have no asyn experience. (So I'm sort of out-of-the-game at this point.)

Nevertheless - some thoughts:
Your NOBT is zero, but your mask is correct, probably something that asyn does for you.
Looked at the record code: An mbbi should definitely send VAL updates when it processes and the value changed.
Are you sure asyn gets the value you expect it to into the record? (Check by enabling asyn debug.)
Are you sure the record gets processed by asyn when you expect it to? (Check by setting the trace field.)
When you set up multiple camonitor clients - do they all behave the same?
When you do intermediate cagets while your camonitor is not getting updates, what timestamps are these showing?
(BTW: You only have two states with raw values 0 and 1 defined - any particular reason for using mbbi as opposed to bi?)


Someone with more asyn background could probably say more....

Good luck!
Ralph


On Tue 11 May 2010 10:07:12 Hinko Kocevar wrote:
Hello Ralph,

On 05/11/10 15:21, Ralph Lange wrote:
Hello Hinko,

what EPICS versions are you using for client and IOC?

IOC and client use 3.14.10 EPICS base version.


Can you show a dump (dbpr <name>, 4) of the record that you are
connecting to?

Sure, here it is: epics> dbpr LIBERA01:ENV:ENV_AGC_MONITOR 4 ACKS: NO_ALARM ACKT: YES ASG: ASP: 0x00000000 BKPT: 0x00 COSV: NO_ALARM DESC: AGC DISA: 0

DISP: 0             DISS: NO_ALARM      DISV: 1             DPVT:
0x50c72c00
DSET: 0x7c620840    DTYP: asynInt32     EIST:               EISV:
NO_ALARM
EIVL: 0x0           ELST:               ELSV: NO_ALARM      ELVL: 0x0

EVNT: 0 FFST: FFSV: NO_ALARM FFVL: 0x0

FLNK:CONSTANT 0 FRST: FRSV: NO_ALARM FRVL: 0x0

FTST: FTSV: NO_ALARM FTVL: 0x0 FVST:

FVSV: NO_ALARM FVVL: 0x0 INP:INST_IO @asyn(ENV, 725, 1.0)

LALM: 1             LCNT: 0             LSET: 0xe8752e00    MASK:
4294967295
MLIS: 0x38d0320060d0320003000000        MLOK: 0x28700b00    MLST: 1

NAME: LIBERA01:ENV:ENV_AGC_MONITOR      NIST:               NISV:
NO_ALARM
NIVL: 0x0           NOBT: 0             NSEV: NO_ALARM      NSTA:
NO_ALARM
ONST: AUTO          ONSV: NO_ALARM      ONVL: 0x1           ORAW: 1

PACT: 0             PHAS: 0             PINI: YES           PPN:
0x00000000
PPNR: 0x00000000    PRIO: LOW           PROC: 0             PUTF: 0

RDES: 0xa8a10300 RPRO: 0 RSET: 0x34b70a40 RVAL: 1

SCAN: I/O Intr      SDEF: 1             SDIS:CONSTANT       SEVR:
NO_ALARM
SHFT: 0             SIML:CONSTANT       SIMM: NO            SIMS:
NO_ALARM
SIOL:CONSTANT       SPVT: 0x388a2f00    STAT: NO_ALARM      SVAL: 0

SVST: SVSV: NO_ALARM SVVL: 0x0 SXST:

SXSV: NO_ALARM      SXVL: 0x0           TEST:               TESV:
NO_ALARM
TEVL: 0x0           THST:               THSV: NO_ALARM      THVL: 0x0

TIME: 2010-05-11 11:18:40.100440000 TPRO: 0 TSE: 0

TSEL:CONSTANT TTST: TTSV: NO_ALARM TTVL: 0x0

TVST: TVSV: NO_ALARM TVVL: 0x0 TWST:

TWSV: NO_ALARM      TWVL: 0x0           UDF: 0              UNSV:
NO_ALARM
VAL: 1              ZRST: MANUAL        ZRSV: NO_ALARM      ZRVL: 0x0


What field of that record are you connecting to?

I did no specify any field - so it is VAL, I guess by default.


Thank you!

Regards,
Hinko

Regards,
Ralph


On Tue 11 May 2010 6:26:48 Hinko Kocevar wrote:
Hi all,

I'm experiencing some strange behavior when using camonitor against an
EPICS IOC.

For some reason a CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD response from IOC to CA client does
not arrive, or arrives several minutes later after the PV value has
changed. Note that first CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD response is seen always,
only latter CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD responses do not arrive (or arrive late)?!
This behavior is not seen always - sometimes the IOC would promptly
respond with CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD response when needed.

I can see the CA_PROTO_ECHO requests/responses fine on the same
camonitor channel link, only CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD response is not seen.

Inspecting the IOC I can see that the value did change (on lower levels)
and caput response is also valid - updated with new value.

I've ruled out the network problems, since the issue is raised even when
using cross-over cable to communicate with the IOC. Actually even I
update the value in the IOC shell, the camonitor is not refreshed!!



Has someone experienced something similar?
Are there some conditions that need to fulfilled in order for IOC to
send a subsequent CA_PROTO_EVENT_ADD response(s)?



TIA & HAND,
Hinko



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