1. R. Keitel Epics Collaboration Meeting, SLAC, 27-Apr-2005 RDB Use at TRIUMF/ISAC

2. State of the ISAC Radioactive Beam Facility half way ØISAC-I routine operation (1.5 MeV/u) ØISAC-II start installation (SC linac – two phases >> 6.5 Mev/u) no change in controls man-power (6 EPICS) tools, tools, tools, …

3. EPICS Environment at ISAC EPICS 3.13.10 EPICS 3.14.7 (softIOC, gateway) vxWorks 5.5 (MV162, 486-PC104, Pentium-VME) Capfast Edd/dm >>> Edm Trar archiver Striptool, alh, … Perl IOCs Ø20 >>30 ( ISAC) Ø10 (other systems) 80k EPICS records

4. EPICS Environment (2) DevelopmentSolaris Production file serversSolaris User display serversLinux Operator consolesLinux User consolesWindows, Linux (X-servers) RDB serverLinux Web serverLinux

5. Web Servers Database Servers Development Computers RDB - Basic Ideas Collaborating tools Loose coupling Minimize mission-critical items Production File Servers

6. RDB + Tools RDB “devices” Web Application Perl Tools EPICS configuration files

7. Relational Database (PostgreSQL) Device classes ØCapfast ØI/O ports ØMacros Device instances ØHardware addresses ØMacros ØInterlocks Hardware info ØPLC drops Ø VME crates IOC info ØBoot area etc.

8. WebApp integrates RDB+Tools generate top-level Capfast schematics (device instantiation) generate dm device control panels ØInterlock display Øhyperlinks to other device control panels verify interlock implementation against specification build configuration scripts (CAN-bus, setpoint restore,..) generate html-documentation (VME channels) manage IOC configuration and roll-back

9. SUN (development) IOC SUN (production) boot Firewall Test Area Boot Area: - previous3 - previous2 - previous1 - current Bootconfigure Tool Development Area Untested code IOC configuration / rollback

10. SUN (production) Test Area Boot Area: - previous3 - previous2 - previous1 - current Bootconfigure Tool Bootconfigure Tool (Perl – integrated in WebApp) roll back update boot area 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

11. WebApp integrates RDB+Tools generate Capfast schematics (evice instantiation) generate dm device control panels ØInterlock display Øhyperlinks to other device control panels verify interlock implementation against specification build configuration scripts (CAN-bus, setpoint restore,..) generate html-documentation (VME channels) manage IOC configuration and roll-back Interaction with other databases (QA, operations).db crawler (off-line – no RDB) adl file crawler (no RDB)

12. What’s next (missing) Configuration scripts? Request files? Cables etc. Device locations IRMIS? Integrate with module asset RDB