The complete documentation for the DAQ - DCS Communication package may be found at the ATLAS DCS site http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/DAQTRIG/DCS/DDC/ddc.html
The only change of the package functionality w.r.t DDC v. 5.0 of the
previous
release is dropping the the DDC applications having worked with direct
access to PVSS projects via PVSS API: ddc_ct, ddc_dt and ddc_mt. Only
similar applications (ddc_ct_dim, ddc_dt_dim and ddc_mt_dim)
communicating with PVSS via DIM interface are now available.
Reminder:
DIM based version of the package requires a PVSS project extension by
In order a DIM based application could be used, the DIM DNS (naming)
server must be running on a network. Both DDC segment and DIM manager
of PVSS project must refer to this server. This is to be done by DIM_DNS_NODE
environment variable for the DDC segment, while the DIM manager should
do this with -dim_dns_node
command line parameter. It is recommended to launch DIM DNS server on
the
computer where the PVSS project to be connected is running.
The libdim.so shared library is included into the DDC package and,
therefore, does not require any more an installation as an external
library
Details of DIM, its installation and integration with PVSS one can find at http://www.cern.ch/dim/ and http://clara.home.cern.ch/clara/fw/FwDim.html
Appplications are updated to comply with TDAQ configuration and Control interface changes.
The bug fixed, which has caused crash of ddc_ct_dim while exiting.
The segment applications ddc_dt_dim and ddc_mt_dim have not been
stopped on that reason.