Control System Data Management from an Operational Point of View*
B. Dunham
CEBAF
Day-to-day operation of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
(CEBAF) requires the management of a over 25,000 signals on the EPICS control
system. Operators need to carry out tasks such as saving the present state of
the machine, restoring old machine states, and rebooting IOC's. Several tools
for performing data management tasks are described in this paper. The saving
and restoring of signals from a user friendly GUI using the Tcl/Tk programming
language is presented, along with a method for recovering from IOC reboots,
both intentional and unintentional.
* Supported by U.S. DOE contract DE-AC05-84ER40150.