Startup procedure Cosmic-DCS
October 4 2005

Startup procedure of the CosmicRay DCS.

The DCS system of the NIKHEF CosmicRay stand is controlled by 2 PC's, both running WXP. One is called mierik, the other abeel. Up to August 2005, the system was controlled by mierik only. From then on the alignment server moved to abeel in order to get a more ATLAS-like distributed system. Whenever the server is moved back to mierik (getting the old system), there is always the former Startup procedure. The mierik PC remains the console machine for the DCS system.
  1. Login on both PC's:
    Account: admrobert
    Password: ******* (classified, but the same on both PC's)
  2. From the desktop of mierik start the following 2 servers (the order is important):
    1. dns
    2. JtagRelay23
    These are Win32 console applications and may be minimized.
  3. From the desktop of abeel start the Rasdim54 server. (If it is not there or it won't start, you may start it directly: D:\DCS\bin\Rasdim54\Rasdim54.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.
  4. From the desktop of mierik start PVSS and select the Cosmics 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.


  5. As a result the NikConsole panel should appear:


    There are 2 main parts of the DCS: alignment and ELMB related items.
    The alignment is known as Rasdim. For normal use press Sequence 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.


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