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MEDM User GuideApril, 2001
P. Sichta
• What is MEDM?• How to Start MEDM• How to Use MEDM• Miscellaneous
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• Use slide from peer review
• EPICS System Software.
• Solaris Operating System.
• The ‘desktop’ will use CDE not OpenWindows.
The purpose of this EPICS upgrade is to establish the framework to maintain currency
with EPICS, Solaris, and other computing resources.
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EPICS Hardware ArchitectureSun Workstations
(Host)
I/O Controllers
(IOC)
Field I/O CAMAC Link PLC
Field I/O Field I/O
Engineering X-terminals(Users)
NetworkFirewall
epicsrv1 epicsrv2
Physics Computing(kees, MDSplus)
Physics Computing(kees, MDSplus)
Physics network
Engineering network
PPPL network
windex windex
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‘CDE’ (Common Desktop Environment)
• Replaces Sun’s outgoing OpenWindows.• The Control Panel
– Multiple Desktops.
– NSTX Subpanel.
• Icons– Desktop Action icons.– Minimized-window icons.
– ‘icon-collection’ window available, or,Center mouse button reveals entire path and display name.
• Display Lock.
• CDE can be customized.
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Icon WindowTypical CDE Workspace (#1)
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Typical CDE Workspace (#2)
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Using EPICS
• When logging in to use EPICS, user’s should choose host epicsrv, not epicsrv1 or epicsrv2.
• Starting applications:– Double-poke a desktop Action icon.– Single-poke a Control Panel’s ‘NSTX’ sub-panel icon.– ‘Type’ in a ‘terminal’ window.
• If the x-terminal is not behaving normally:– Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot an x-terminal.
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blank slide
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EPICS Display Manager ‘medm’
• Launch main display CE00 using the ‘EPICS’ icon.• Windows resizing - Cannot simply drag at corner.
– Poke right mouse botton in ‘top border’ of window to bring up window options.
– Poke ‘Size’ selection using left mouse button.
– Release buttons. Move mouse beyond current borders to stretch window.
– poke left mouse when size is correct.
• Medm Printing: Use the right mouse button anywhere in the display to bring up menu … drag and release over ‘print’.
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medm, cont’d
• Related Display shortcuts:– Buttons.
– Menu - left mouse-poke, drag to selection, release.
– Original window usually lives.
• From within a medm display, use the ‘!’ Script Control menu to start other EPICS functions:– gnuPlot, and gnuPlot printing
– StripTool
– Historical Trend Viewer
– Alarm Handler
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NSTX Trouble Report
• New system to electronically submit and respond to NSTX Trouble Reports (TR).
• Launch TR GUI using ‘Trouble_Report” icon. • GUI is www browser.• VERY slow Netscape startup (~ 45 seconds).
• Investigating alternate www browser.
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NSTX Trouble Report (cont’d)
• Anyone can view the TR database, from anywhere at PPPL.
• Anyone can generate a TR.• Only COE can close out TR’s.• Software administered by Subir Sengupta