Practical Beamline Controls Training

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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
Ugly Microsoft Teams Meeting URL

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
Survey URL
https://forms.office.com/g/b4XbHZFuRb

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

1080p mkv

Audio

unannotated mp3

Git revisions used during the training

Instructions: 5801aa2f

xxx: 65cbe6b5

motorVMC: f98f1512