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Archiver info tag #223

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Hi @kivel and @anderssandstrom,

The guys here at ESS recently released a new feature that allow us to automatically register PVs for archival using info tags.

This PR adds support to said info tags. This means all ecmc IOCs at ESS can (can, not will, see below) be archived by default.

Initially I am only adding this to the motor record PV.
In the future, depending on success and/or necessity, we may want to expand this to other PVs.

The behavior is disabled by default. It will only work if NAMING == ESSnaming and the integrator specify the archiver cluster via the ECMC_ARCHIVER variable (currently only 3 options are available tn, nin and lab).

I believe I wrote the code in such way that should not affect other facilities and is easily expandable if necessary.
But please let me know your thoughts.


PS1: please do not merge before @mac-kan agrees with the changes.

PS2: I took the opportunity to fix the formatting of the motor record .db files.

PS3: I think I found a bug (?): The way it stands right now ECMC_AXISFIELDINIT has no effect.
https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/ecmccfg/blob/master/motion/ecmc_axis_mr.cmd#L21-L22

PS4: I set up a virtual axis that has been constantly moving... It amounts to approx. 1.5 GB per year of data usage with .RBV being the main culprit.

Carlos Doro Neto added 2 commits August 27, 2024 17:03
Use 4 space for indentation
Align values for 3 and 4 letter fields
{ on same line as record
Space after commas
Remove trailing spaces
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cdn-lnk commented Aug 27, 2024

@mac-kan, do you think we should include a macro for the archiver policy?

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Please look at the comment of the first suggestion.
In my mind, there is no downside of having the info fields by default for all.
Happy to discuss the matter, though.

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kivel commented Aug 27, 2024

@mac-kan, do you think we should include a macro for the archiver policy?

I'd say it's mandatory to have it as a MACRO, otherwise you need to tinker with the template all the time, which is not really in the spirit of a module.

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mac-kan commented Aug 28, 2024

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Looks alright with me, especially the clean up ;)
Regarding the info tags: If a facility does not use the info-tags to load the archiver, will a default tag result in a lot of error messages in the IOC?

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kivel commented Aug 28, 2024

Regarding the info tags: If a facility does not use the info-tags to load the archiver, will a default tag result in a lot of error messages in the IOC?

I'm not aware that info fields create error. To my best knowledge, they are metadata that's consumed by a service that's actively looking for them. You'll get errors if the service can't find them, though.

Carlos Doro Neto added 2 commits September 2, 2024 19:12
- Fix minor bugs (missing quotes, unnecessary commands, etc)
- Create ECMC_ARCHIVER_POLICY macro
- Create configureArchiver.cmd
It is not used
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