Practical Beamline Controls Training

Practical Beamline Controls (EPICS) Training for APS resident users

Sessions

1. IOC Basics
2. IOC Deployment & Troubleshooting

IOC Basics

Meeting Info

Date

Friday, January 20, 2023

Time

1:00pm CST

Duration

1 hour

Sign-up form

https://forms.office.com/g/U79q6v9Jpm

Meeting URL

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Outline

1. What is an IOC/PV/record/field?
2. Where to find record/field info
3. Record processing/linking
4. Loading databases
5. Creating IOCs
6. IOC Layout
7. How support gets into the IOC
8. Running/connecting to/disconnecting from an IOC
9. Useful commands (iocsh & command line)
10. GUIs
11. EPICS support at the APS
12. Adding streamDevice support to an IOC

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UN3rHJ-U-gwZz50blV7qj1AGE3RDS_VVw1-TYOsNnw4/edit?usp=sharing

Video

1080p mp4 (slides & audio)

Note: the box web site plays the video at a lower resolution by default.

Audio

unannotated audio

annotated audio (with chapters corresponding to slides) -- coming eventually

IOC Deployment & Troubleshooting

Meeting Info

Date

Monday, March 20, 2023

Time

2:00pm CDT

Duration

1 hour

Sign-up form

https://forms.office.com/g/vquAbEHi0Q

Meeting URL

Ugly Microsoft Teams URL

Outline

1. Setup
2. Deploy a new IOC
3. Add simulated motors to the IOC
4. Deploy the motorVMC (Virtual Motor Controller) module
5. Add virtual motors to the IOC
6. asyn troubleshooting

Requirements

ssh access to an APS Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) computer is required for the training.

Many RHEL virtual machines are available.

Instructions

Running through the instructions before the training session is strongly encouraged:

https://git.aps.anl.gov/practical_beamline_controls_training/session_2/instructions

If an APS computer is not available, alternate instructions can be followed, but the differences will not be covered during the training session.

Video

https://anl.box.com/s/wlfwd8luug1w9tdbwe1yf6ac9qqvslsc

Audio

unannotated mp3