The DCS system of the NIKHEF CosmicRay stand is controlled by 2 PC's,
both running WXP. One is called mierik, the other abeel.
In june 2006 the JTAG loading is now performed by a so called PVSS manager.
Whenever this manager (or server) causes problems, there is always the
former Startup procedure.
Login on both PC's (abeel and mierik):
Account:
admrobert
Password:
******* (classified, but the same on both PC's)
From the desktop of mierik start the following server:
dns
This is a Win32 console application and may be minimized.
From the desktop of abeel start the Rasdim55 server. (If it is not there or it won't start, you may start it directly: D:\DCS\bin\Rasdim55\Rasdim55.exe). The following window
should appear:
The server is a Windows application and may be minimized.
The upper left rectangular is meant for the
images and the bottom scrollbar for the output and diagnostics.
From the desktop of mierik start PVSS and select the CosmicsII project.
Activate the 'Traffic light' button with the green light from the
PVSS console and wait until all managers are started (and have a
green status). Afterward the PVSS console and log-viewer may be
minimized.
As a result 2 panels should appear (MDM_BaseConsole & RDStartup):
There are 2 main parts of the DCS: alignment and ELMB related items.
The alignment is known as Rasdim. For normal use press Control Panel
and the main Rasdim panel will appear. Set the delay to 2 (minutes) and
select Start Run. From this moment on, the alignment runs.
The ELMB part already runs. To check this select Temperature. A panel
appears with a table of temperatures. Select Invalidate and all the connected
sensors turn yellow. After a certain amount of time (but no longer than
30 seconds) most of them turn white again, indicating the system is active.
Some remarks concerning JTAG: The JTAG manager (listed as PVSS00_JTAG_10
in the PVSS console panel) runs as server 0. The output of this manager
appears in the PVSS LogViewer. While loading the JTAG strings, it might be helpful
to open this viewer and see what happens.