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= Alarm Tree and Alarm Tablee = '''Purpose: Watching alarms from an EPICS-based control system'''
'''Prerequisites:''' This is not an introduction to EPICS but to the alarm-related views of the Control System Studio, therefore some experience with EPICS-based systems is necessary.BR
== Right after the start of CSS ==
After closing the welcome page you will see the default perspective:
Image(01_CSS_Default_Perspective.png)BR
At first let us take a look at some process variable. Open the Probe View from the menu:
and enter the name of a process variable which must be reachable within your subnet. Then rearrange the display, so it will look tidy:
To make Island appear tidy, I minimzed the navigator view and the editor area. I also dragged the console view to the bottom of the probe view and changed the size of the whole css window to a reasonable size.
How do you proceed if this does not work?
- If you do not know how to resize and reorder views, you should read about this here ((...))
- If you have no EPICS-based control system at hand you may want to use a test system (so called soft-ioc). Read the section ''Setting up a Soft-IOC'' to get you started.
- If you want to have access to process variables from your facilities, we expect them not to be in your subnet. Thus they will not be reachable without a small amount of configuration. Read the section ''Configuring access to your EPICS-based system''.
== Setting up a Soft-IOC ==
== Configuring access to your EPICS-based system ==
We do this by entering configuration data in the preferences, so open them up:
Select the preference page for EPICS in the section 'CSS Core'.
Image(05_Pref_Page_EPICS.png)BR
Now enter the channel address list for your system in the form '192.168.47.11' into the field 'addr_List'. You may enter more than one address, separated by blanks.
Now you should have access to your system and see the value of the pv updating.
== Watching alarms with the alarm tree ==
== Saving the facility model ==
== Watching alarms with the alarm table ==