1. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory ALICE Control System July 08

2. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Introduction Hardware Involved - – IOC’s – Other Systems – Network – Servers & Consoles Applications – How to find them – How to specify what you want – History / Strip tool – Backup and Restore

3. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Control Station

4. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory CS1 - Injector CS1A – Serial –Radiation Monitors –PSU control –Motor Control ( whole machine inc Laser) –Injector Ion Pump control –Gun PSU CS1B –Analogue control & readback –Status and interlocks – Magnets, Vac, laser shut, gun PSU, Cryo RF permit, Booster Valves

5. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory CS2 – Injector ST1 & AR1 CS2A – Serial –BPM switch unit –PSU control –Motor Control ( RF still Used ?? ) –Ion Pump control –Beam Loss / Protection readback CS2B –Analogue control & readback –Status and interlocks –Hall probe readback (All the Machine) –BPM Readback (All the Machine) –Beam Loss / Protection control (All the Machine)

6. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory CS3 – ST2 THZ FMU CS3 –RF DIO –Analogue control & readback ( some RF) –Status and interlocks

7. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory CS4 – ST3 AR2 ST4 CBS CS4 –RF connection to S7 PLC –Analogue control & readback –Status and interlocks

8. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory CS5 – Laser CS5 –Pulse delay via GPIB –Charge counter –Attenuator

9. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Other Systems Cryo PC – OPC server – Web Interface Blade IOC in the control room PS IOC’s Rack Room

10. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Network Network LHS = site network RHS = Controls Network Two network locations – Rack Room, Control Room

11. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Requests for new Control Request by email with a sketch of what you want

12. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Requests for new Control

13. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Servers and Consoles Erlpserv1 – Main server all control system configuration Erlpserv2 – History data 2 Consoles User = console Pw= console 2 Laptops User = pcon Pw = control –Must be connected to the control network. –Some displays will be too big. Main Menu – on all consoles Close & restart Main Menu to get updates

14. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Control Synoptics Control synoptics accessible via Main Menu Commonly used synoptics are: Injector –Vacuum –500kV Power Supply –Laser –Magnets Machine –Radiation Monitors –Vacuum –Magnets –Diagnostics Personnel Safety –Machine Synoptics RF –Linac, Booster, Buncher control

15. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory History Web Interface Main Menu -> History -> Web Interface Used to retrieve archived data values for EPICS channels Type PV name into ‘Names’ text box Set date/time (US format) in start/end times drop down boxes Choose output format –Plot –Various spreadsheet formats Press ‘Get’ button Can retrieve multiple EPICS channels at same time Can use patterns to search for EPICS channels If a channel is missing, please contact us to add it to history

16. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory StripTool Main Menu -> History -> StripTool Used for real-time plots of EPICS channels Type PV name into ‘Plot New Signal’ text box Press ‘Connect’ button Graph appears with real-time plot StripTool Control Window Curves Tab –Can modify precision (decimal places), logarithmic plot, mix and max limits Controls Tab –Can modify sample rate, graph colours etc

17. Adrian Oates Daresbury Laboratory Backup & Restore Tool (BURT) Main Menu -> Commissioning -> Back-Up and Restore Tool Used to create and restore snap-shots of EPICS channels values Request Files –Plain text file with list of EPICS channel names –Stored on Apsv4 which is samba mounted to both consoles at /home/Apsv4_astec_sambaShare directory Backup button creates a snapshot of values for the EPICS channels specified in a request file Restore button restores EPICS channels values from the values stored in a a snapshot file