Monitoring: Outline of Tasks and Issues

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