Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Martin Konrad <[email protected]> · Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:43:48 +0100

Hi,
> The downside of this
> approach is that if your DHCP/NFS/PXE/BOOTP/TFTP server or servers are
> down, nothing boots.
We use local disks and FAI (http://www.fai-project.org/). The idea is to
use PXE and NFS to boot an installation system that can
reinstall/reconfigure a broken machine in a few minutes while at the
same time being able to operate the accelerator even if the central
NFS-Server is down. Thus this avoids the single point of failure (at
least for soft-IOCs running on Linux machines).

The FAI scripts can checkout IOC configuration from your Git repository,
copy files, run Perl scripts that retrieve data from a relational
database etc.

Cheers,

Martin

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Institut für Kernphysik
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System