Monitoring: Outline of Tasks and Issues

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

Monitoring data collection programs: automated data consumers

1. Alarm handlers
2. Archiver (database fillers)
3. Logbook

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