1. Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 MICE Control & Monitoring Plan Brian Martlew

2. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 We need to establish a control and monitoring infrastructure that individual controllers and consoles can plug into. In order to achieve this we must: 1.Establish a common communication protocol 2.Provide physical connectivity 3.Agree a standard convention for naming I/O devices 4.Provide operator consoles in the control room (and at strategic points in the MICE Hall?) 5.Provide Software to monitor, control, process and archive MICE.

3. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 Communication Protocol This defines the mechanism by which data is interchanged in the control system.This decision has already been taken by selecting EPICS as the basis for the control system. Channel Access (CA) is the protocol used by EPICS and therefore all clients and servers must use this protocol to communicate with each other.

4. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 Physical Connectivity We need to make plans for network distribution to various parts of the MICE hall –Location of 19” control racks –Number of Ethernet connections –How many subnets do we need? (Do we need separate network for controls and DAQ?) –Power distribution to control racks.

5. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 Operator Consoles & Servers Need to set-up a minimum of 1 file server and 2 operator console. Also must consider requirements for local control and commissioning of systems within the MICE hall – maybe two additional laptops. Systems can be standard commercial PCs running Linux – which distribution is best? Scientific Linux?

6. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 Application Software Most generic control software is already available for EPICS, including: Display managers – tools to design and display interactive synoptic control diagrams Archiver – automatically record and archive control requests and significant changes to monitored values Alarm Handler – Produce an audible and visual indication of any values exceeding pre-defined alarm limits. These applications need installing and configuring on the server/consoles

7. Presenter Name Facility Name Brian Martlew 25 th Sept 2006 Plan Publish naming convention and implementation guidelines Identify location of IOCs within the MICE hall Plan services (power, network, cooling) Specify control room servers/consoles etc Purchase and install control room equipment Install and configure application software