Re: [Cs-studio-users] Alarm system

[Kasemir, K. <kas...@or...>]

On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Vlad Andrei Rusu <rus...@gm...>
 wrote:

> If I am using CSS paired with Epics Base I am forced to use the alarm system incorporated into Epics Base? Because I looked on the website and there are no alarm tools for CSS used with Epics Base. 

Hi:

No, you're not forced to do anything. CSS is developed in free countries.

May depend on what you mean by "the alarm system incorporated into Epics Base".

The alarm triggers are EPICS channels.
If you happen to use EPICS IOCs, those would be based on records.
If you use records, alarms are created by for example configuring the ZSV field of a BI record, or the HIGH and HSV fields of an analog record.
So yes, you would be "forced" to set those fields.

But you can also create our own channel access server without an IOC.
You may still be forced to use a computer to do that, though.

-Kay