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 releveant areas:
- GlueX Detector
- Detector electronics
- Hall D systems
- relevant Accelerator systems
- relevant IT systems
- relevant Facilities Management systems
- Types of data: how is the data presented
- Event based: in the data stream
- Triggered detector events
- Special events
- Slow controls: on-demand, small volume
- EPICS or EPICS-like
- stand-alone systems
- Web-based variables
- Monitoring applications
- Event based: in the data stream
- Audience: who wants to know
- Counting room personnel
- Accelerator personnel
- Detector and systems experts
- Collaboration
- On-site
- Off-site
- General public
- Presentation: how to access the data
- Histograms
- Strip charts
- Web pages
- Desktop applications
- Audible alarms
- Monitoring data collection programs: automated data consumers
- Alarm handlers
- Archiver (database fillers)
- Logbook