MASAR

MASAR (MAchine Snapshot, Archiving, and Retrieve)

Dependencies

Required dependencies

• EPICS Base
• PVDataCPP
• PVAccessCPP
• NormativeTypesCPP
• pymongo

Needed by Qt client UI

• PyQt4
• cothread

Needed by Server when using MongoDB storage backend (not need for sqlite backend)

• mongodb

# apt-get install epics-dev epics-pvd-dev epics-pva-dev epics-nt-dev \
  python-dev python-qt4 python-cothread

Building

Copy RELEASE.local.example as RELEASE.local and fill in the paths for all EPICS module dependencies. If using Debian packages then copy RELEASE.local.deb instead.

$ make

Running the daemon (SQLITE)

Setting Python path

export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/python2.7/linux-x86_64

adapt as necessary for different python version and EPICS target.

Setup demo configuration.

# one list of fake PV names
cat <<EOF >pvs-list1.txt
examplepv1
examplepv2
examplepv3
examplepv4
EOF
# Associate the list (aka group) with a MASAR config
cat <<EOF > db_config.txt
{
"pvgroups": [{ "name": "groupname1",
             "pvlist": "pvs-list1.txt",
             "description": "Booster magnet power supply set points"
           }],
"configs": [{"config_name": "exampleconfig",
             "config_desc": "BR ramping PS daily SCR setpoint",
             "system": "BR"
           }],
"pvg2config": [{ "config_name": "exampleconfig",
                 "pvgroups": ["groupname1"]
              }]
}
EOF
# Backend config
cat <<EOF > masarservice.conf
[Common]
database = sqlite
[sqlite]
database = ${PWD}/masar.db
EOF
export MASAR_SQLITE_DB=${PWD}/masar.db
# Initialize the DB
./masarConfigTool db_config.txt

To run the daemon

export MASAR_SQLITE_DB=${PWD}/masar.db
./bin/linux-*/masarServiceRun masarService

Running the Qt client

./masar