Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:05:19 +0200

On 03.10.2013 07:37, L. C. De Silva wrote:

Hi all,

I am interested in implementing alarm handler warnings via email and text. Is this supported in EPICS framework? If so, can somebody point me to the relevant information?

Thanks, Chanaka.

With StreamDevice, you can send emails. Not from the alarm handler, but

from a record. (Handle with care: SCAN=".1 second" may be a bad idea.)

All you need is access to a (not too suspicious) mail server from your

IOC and a little bit of knowledge about the sendmail protocol:

Terminator = CR LF;
ExtraInput = Ignore;
ReplyTimeout = 1000;

@mismatch { out "QUIT"; disconnect; }

mail_start {
    connect 10000;
    in  "220";
    out "HELO";
    in  "250";
    out "MAIL FROM:\$1";
    in  "250";
    out "RCPT TO:\$2";
    in  "250";
    out "DATA";
    in  "354";
    out "From: \$1";
    out "To: \$2";
    out "Subject: Report from \$1";
    out "";
}

mail_end {
    out ".";
    in  "250";
    out "QUIT";
    disconnect;
}

send {
    mail_start;
    out "Your problem is: %s";
    mail_end;
}

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System