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[email protected] · Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:54:54 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Bob,

Does the PV History Tool support queries like these:

http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/45438/choosing-a-database-type-for-recording-infrequent-changes-in-a-large-number-of-v

Thank you,
Patrick

> There is no online documentation for the PV History Tool. The script is
> contained in:
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/oag/downloads/oag.1.20.tar.gz
> at oag/apps/src/tcltkapp/oagapp/PVHistoryTool
> If you install the OAGTclTk program first:
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/oag/software.shtml#TclTk
> you should be able to run the PVHistoryTool script. You will probably
> also need the SDDSToolKit which is available on the same web page.
>
> You will need to set the OAGGlobal(LogOnChangeDirectory) variable to
> point to the directory containing the attached
> PVHistoryTool.config.1.sdds file that I am attaching. To do this you
> should edit the APSSetOAGGlobal.tcl file that comes with the OAGTclTk
> installation. Or you can set it directly inside the PVHistoryTool script.
>
> After starting the PVHistoryTool script you will select a beamline that
> has been predefined in the PVHistoryTool.config.1.sdds file. For example
> we have an LPL beamline. By selecting this it attempts to load
> $OAGGlobal(LogOnChangeDirectory)/LPL/LPL.loc which is the input file for
> our LPL sddslogonchange logger. I am attaching our file as an example.
>
> Our sddslogonchange is launched with the command:
>
> sddslogonchange LPL.loc LPL -dailyFiles  -loginitial  -connectTimeout=120
>
> I will be attaching the PVHistoryTool.config.1.sdds and LPL.loc files in
> a separate email.
>
> On 07/01/13 13:54, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> Thank you. I found the page for sddslogonchange. Is there a page for the
>> PV History Tool as well?
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>>> On 06/28/13 12:25, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Hi Emmanuel,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your reply. I think there may be a difference though. I
>>>> believe that the SCR applications use snapshots taken at periodic
>>>> intervals in time? What I had in mind was something that places
>>>> monitors
>>>> on the process variables and archives the values only when they
>>>> change.
>>>> The queries I described would then be done on that recorded data.
>>>>
>>>> MASAR does look like a nice program though.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>>>> store and query data as I have described, but I am wondering if I am
>>>>>> reinventing the wheel. Does a tool such as this already exist?
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>> You are describing a feature of Save/Compare/Restore applications.
>>>>> SCR are also know as epics-backup application (i.e take a snapshot of
>>>>> a
>>>>> running machine, compare 2 snapshots, compare a snapshot with the
>>>>> running
>>>>> machine)
>>>>>
>>>>> You next question is where to get such a piece of software. Well...
>>>>> I am using SDDS save/compare/restore (very old)
>>>>> SCORE may have the described feature as well (used at SNS and SLAC)
>>>>>
>>>>> <Shameless plug for MASAR>
>>>>> I am currently looking at MASAR part of epics-4, which is straight
>>>>> forward
>>>>> to install, but still in development.
>>>>> For example, comparisons of 2 snapshots using the pyQt GUI is
>>>>> missing.
>>>>> A CSS GUI is also a work-in-progress.
>>>>> At this time, most of the development is at the GUI level
>>>>> So if you don't mind a text output (i.e. in a terminal), you can use
>>>>> MASAR
>>>>> with its python API and have something working by tonight.
>>>>> </Shameless plug for MASAR>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> That sounds a lot like our sddslogonchange logger paired with our PV
>>> History Tool GUI. We have the logger running all the time and recording
>>> any changes to individual PVs with an optional tolerance level. We can
>>> then use our PV History Tool to plot the changes and to restore the PVs
>>> to any given time.
>>>
>>> --Bob Soliday
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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