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Program Name

pcsAlarmCont

PCS stream-state

group: TPP table: TPP state: ALARM

Description

pcsAlarmCont provides one of the connection points between the PCS system and the post processing alarm system. For each event found it the configured PCS stream-state, a CMS message is sent to the alarmdec_pp program by means of the alarmevent program.

pcsAlarmCont runs the basic PCS client loop:

queries for the next event in its assigned stream-state
if an event is found, run alarmevent <evid>
if alarmevent succedded, set stream-state event result to 1 and repeat the loop
if alarmevent failed, set stream-state event result to 100 and repeat the loop
if no event is found, sleep 30 seconds and repeat the loop

Program Location

post-proc systems: /home/ncss/ncpp/bin/

Configuration File

none

Source of Database name

masterdb

Cron Starter Program

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /home/ncss/ncpp/bin/startPcsTasks

Log File

/home/ncss/ncpp/logs/pcsAlarmCont.log

Other Programs Called

/home/ncss/ncpp/bin/alarmsend: checks for existence of event, then calls alarmevent -c /home/ncss/run/params/alarmevent-pp.cfg <evid>
/home/ncss/run/bin/alarmevent: publishes CMS message with subject /signals/event/final