Prerequisites:
- python3 packages: bottle requests xml2dict
- we assume there is a working DNS
- Multimon uses EPICS beacons to detect new devices, however we wanted to avoid needing to install EPICS on the host, and also to make the appropriate firewall entry, instead:
- Multimon needs to know the name of a "lighthouse" : a first ACQ400 system to get a TCP socket feed of all EPICS beacon data
- For production, use redirection from a webserver on the same box (nginx example shown below)
- for initial testing, it's quicket to use the embedded webserver and a local browser
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Add the lighthouse initial HOSTNAME in config.json
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Open firewall port:
#On centos7 sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=5000/tcp --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --reload #On Ubuntu sudo ufw allow 5000/tcp -
then just run it:
[peter@andros multimon_portable]$ ./multimon.py Multimon V4 [config] Loading config.json [claim_handler] Added 7 claims [web_server] Starting webserver on port 5000 [casw] acq2006_015 is lighthouse [casw] Connected to acq2006_015 casw [thread_handler] New uut acq1001_070 ...- then connect a local web browser to localhost:5000/,
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To run as service do:
sudo cp multimon.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable multimon
sudo systemctl start multimon
Nginx config:
location /multimon {
return 302 $scheme://$host:5000/;
}