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# Scope: what to monitor and why
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=Scope: what to monitor and why=
## Online and near-online
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# Online and near-online
## Provide feedback to insure data quantity and quality
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# Provide feedback to insure data quantity and quality
## All releveant areas:
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# All relevant areas:
### GlueX Detector
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## GlueX Detector
### Detector electronics
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## Detector electronics
### Hall D systems
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## Hall D systems
### relevant Accelerator systems
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## relevant Accelerator systems
### relevant IT systems
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## relevant IT systems
### relevant Facilities Management systems
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## relevant Facilities Management systems
# Types of data: how is the data presented
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=Beyond scope: what should be done by other means=
## Event based: in the data stream
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# Safety
### Triggered detector events
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## Personnel
### Special events
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## Equipment
## Slow controls: on-demand, small volume
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# Beam time accounting
### EPICS or EPICS-like
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# Personnel training/certification/qualification
### stand-alone systems
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# Shift-taking accounting
## Web-based variables
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# Shift-takers' refreshment supply
## Monitoring applications
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=Types of data: how data is produced=
# Audience: who wants to know
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# Event based: in the data stream
## Counting room personnel
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## Triggered detector events
## Accelerator personnel
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## Special events
## Detector and systems experts
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# Slow controls: on-demand (usually), small data volume
## Collaboration
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## EPICS or EPICS-like devices
### On-site
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## stand-alone systems
### Off-site
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# Video
## General public
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# Web-based variables
# Presentation: how to access the data
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# Monitoring applications
## Histograms
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=Audience: who wants to know=
## Strip charts
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# Counting room personnel
## Web pages
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# Accelerator personnel
## Desktop applications
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# Detector and systems experts
## Audible alarms
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# Collaborators
# Monitoring data collection programs: automated data consumers
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## On-site
## Alarm handlers
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## Off-site
## Archiver (database fillers)
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=Presentation: how to access the data=
## Logbook
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# Histograms
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# Strip charts
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# Web pages
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# Desktop applications
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# Audible alarms
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=Programs: automated data consumers=
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# Alarm handlers
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# Archiver (database fillers)
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# Logbook
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# Event reconstruction engine
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=Time-scales=
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# Real time
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# Minute-by-minute
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# Hourly
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# Every shift
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# Every day
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# Weekly
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# Monthly
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# Run period
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# Annually
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=References=
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# [http://www.jlab.org/ccc/mail_archives/HALLD/halld-controls/CURRENT/msg00048.html What's our need? from Eric Scott]
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# [http://www.jlab.org/ccc/mail_archives/HALLD/halld-online/CURRENT/msg00168.html timelines for the review from Elke]

Latest revision as of 16:46, 3 April 2008

Scope: what to monitor and why

  1. Online and near-online
  2. Provide feedback to insure data quantity and quality
  3. All relevant areas:
    1. GlueX Detector
    2. Detector electronics
    3. Hall D systems
    4. relevant Accelerator systems
    5. relevant IT systems
    6. relevant Facilities Management systems

Beyond scope: what should be done by other means

  1. Safety
    1. Personnel
    2. Equipment
  2. Beam time accounting
  3. Personnel training/certification/qualification
  4. Shift-taking accounting
  5. Shift-takers' refreshment supply

Types of data: how data is produced

  1. Event based: in the data stream
    1. Triggered detector events
    2. Special events
  2. Slow controls: on-demand (usually), small data volume
    1. EPICS or EPICS-like devices
    2. stand-alone systems
  3. Video
  4. Web-based variables
  5. Monitoring applications

Audience: who wants to know

  1. Counting room personnel
  2. Accelerator personnel
  3. Detector and systems experts
  4. Collaborators
    1. On-site
    2. Off-site

Presentation: how to access the data

  1. Histograms
  2. Strip charts
  3. Web pages
  4. Desktop applications
  5. Audible alarms

Programs: automated data consumers

  1. Alarm handlers
  2. Archiver (database fillers)
  3. Logbook
  4. Event reconstruction engine

Time-scales

  1. Real time
  2. Minute-by-minute
  3. Hourly
  4. Every shift
  5. Every day
  6. Weekly
  7. Monthly
  8. Run period
  9. Annually

References

  1. What's our need? from Eric Scott
  2. timelines for the review from Elke