Configuration

These are the steps needed to get the pvWebMonitor service running on your workstation.

1. install the pvWebMonitor package into your Python environment

2. setup the project configuration directory

3. identify the web server directory to be used

4. edit config.xml

5. identify the list of EPICS PVs

6. edit pvlist.xml

7. customize the livedata display file: edit livedata.xsl

8. run the config.xml file

9. watch the log_data.txt file in the project directory

These steps are described in the following sections:

• Installation
• Setup a new project directory
• The config.xml file
  • Preamble
  • Root Tag
• The pvlist.xml file
  • Preamble
  • Root tag
  • Describe a PV to Monitor
  • Terms
  • EPICS R3 strings using the waveform record (as_string)
  • Removing declarations
  • Example pvlist.xml file
• The rawdata.xsl file
• The livedata.xsl file
• The manage.sh file
  • cron - The Linux system scheduler