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Subject: Re: Search for disconnected channels
From: William Lu <[email protected]>
To: Chris Slominski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:18:39 -0500
How about upgrading your client to using EPICS 3.14.7 or later.  Your client will continue to search for unresolved channels until they are resolved.  You can use the EPICS_CA_MAX_SEARCH_PERIOD environment variable to define the maximum searching interval for your client.  I haven't verified this feature of the CA client library myself but the EPICS R3.14 Channel Access Reference Manual seems saying so.

On 02/23/2012 11:58 AM, Chris Slominski wrote:
We will eventually identify and fix the iocs, but since I am archiving; I want to loose as little data as possible.

I am doing now something similar to what you suggest, checking for disconnected channels every so often. When there are some, I try to open another connection to the same channel instead of deleting and reconnecting.

I posted to find a more elegant way than what I am doing now, since I want to minimize the time I spend away from monitoring the active connections.

Andrew Johnson wrote:
Hi Chris,

On 2012-02-23 Chris Slominski wrote:
  
I was thinking of a local solution for one process on one host, but I
will consider your global solution. I'm not sure I want every client
restarting their searches for disconnected channels.
    
I would look into trying to fix those IOCs so that they are configured with 
the right subnetmask, which (unless they're actually in a different IP subnet) 
is all you *should* have to do for their broadcasts to be seen.

Within the context of a single client you could just delete and then re-
connect and subscribe to any one of the disconnected channels, which won't 
affect the rest of the program since by definition the channel isn't live.  If 
there are no disconnected channels then there's obviously no need to do this, 
so the issue should be self-regulating.

  
On 23.02.2012 14:18, Chris Slominski wrote:
      
I want to be able to force my EPICS channel access client to begin a
new search for currently disconnected channels.We have small short
term pc104 iocs come and go and sometimes they are  not configured
correctly to broadcast when they have been booted up. A client
listening to the channels won't see a beacon anomaly and  begin the
channel search sequence.

I can see a couple of ways to do this.

- Send a network beacon to the CA Repeater.
- Issue a search for some non-existent channel.

Please advise on what is a good way to do this. Example code or
references to EPICS source code are very welcome, as I am neither
familiar with EPICS base software, nor am I an experienced network
programmer. My client software uses EPICS 3.13.10.
        
- Andrew
  

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Weiwei (William) Lu
Controls Software Group
Jefferson Lab
757-269-7476

References:
Search for disconnected channels Chris Slominski
Re: Search for disconnected channels Ralph Lange
Re: Search for disconnected channels Chris Slominski
Re: Search for disconnected channels Andrew Johnson
Re: Search for disconnected channels Chris Slominski

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