Monitoring: Outline of Tasks and Issues
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Scope: what to monitor and why
- Online and near-online
- Provide feedback to insure data quantity and quality
- All relevant areas:
- GlueX Detector
- Detector electronics
- Hall D systems
- relevant Accelerator systems
- relevant IT systems
- relevant Facilities Management systems
Beyond scope: what should be done by other means
- Safety
- Personnel
- Equipment
- Beam time accounting
- Personnel training/certification/qualification
- Shift-taking accounting
- Shift-takers' refreshment supply
Types of data: how data is produced
- Event based: in the data stream
- Triggered detector events
- Special events
- Slow controls: on-demand (usually), small data volume
- EPICS or EPICS-like devices
- stand-alone systems
- Video
- Web-based variables
- Monitoring applications
Audience: who wants to know
- Counting room personnel
- Accelerator personnel
- Detector and systems experts
- Collaborators
- On-site
- Off-site
Presentation: how to access the data
- Histograms
- Strip charts
- Web pages
- Desktop applications
- Audible alarms
Programs: automated data consumers
- Alarm handlers
- Archiver (database fillers)
- Logbook
- Event reconstruction engine
Time-scales
- Real time
- Minute-by-minute
- Hourly
- Every shift
- Every day
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Run period
- Annually