ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 1 Standardization of the DCS control panels The ACC is elaborating a set of panels (GUIs) to be proposed at the sub-detector DCS groups as : –Access Control panel; –DCS control panels; –full detector FSM control (REM: distributed system); In this way, when integrated in the ALICE DCS, the operation of each sub-detector can be done via a set of GUIs having the same ‘look and feel’; Once approved, by the end of March 06, the first prototype of GUIs will be available on the ALICE DCS site along with instructions for their integration in your present DCS project; The proposed GUIs will be periodically updated according to the suggestions/comments that will be collected from the DCS users after a certain time of usage.

ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 2 The DCS Access Control 1 ° Once the operator starts the DCS project from the PVSS consolle, this panel will be the first panel to be automatically opened Detector Standard FW login window Access control Commands: L ogout C hange U ser S et P assword F ind U ser 2° Pushing the WXP standard button then the FW login panel will appear. Only once authenticated the main DCS control panel will appear (see next slide) giving at the User the corresponding rights of operations

ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 3 3° The main DCS control panel as provided for the FSM in the FW -For a FSM hierarchy of a distributed system, as on the top of the figure,the pannel below is automatically provieded by the SMI++ tool in the FW; -Tha ACC, starting from this standard proposes a new panel that integrates extra features M3M4M5M6M7 DCS M1 Racks M2 PC2 PC1

ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 4 Title Bar related to the PanelMessage & Info window Operator Tools bar FSM Control Zone Expert Tools bar Detector Monitoring Zone 3° bis : The ACC proposal for the standard DCS panel Short cut on critical lower parts of the FSM hierarchy

ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 5 Deep inside the GUI for the FSM CONTROL ZONE FSM servers status and FSM Control windows button FSM Node control status widget Hierarchy children control status widget Specific FSM Node status widgets The HMPID FSM Control Window DEAD In the distributed project on two machines, the FSM engines have to be started on each machine via the relevant FW editor/navigator windows. Here it is proposed a series of panels which : integrates the “start/stop all” FSM engines in one button; Give the FSM servers status; provides the operation mode setting (included, excluded, shared..etc) for the DCS FSM processes; Synoptic view of all the FSM processes provides the editing/downloading of the corresponding FSM configuration file. This is a new proposed feature, so far not included in the FW.

ALICE DCS Workshop - 14/03/2006 De Cataldo, CERN CH and INFN Bari - 6 Conclusion By the end of March 06 the proposed set of GUIs will be available on the ALICE DCS web page Instructions will be provided for their installation and test in the user DCS project In order to improve these panels, feedback from user will be welcome