ICALEPCS2021 - List of Authors (Mol, J.J.D.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOAR03	LOFAR2.0: Station Control Upgrade	31
	T. Juerges, J.J.D. Mol, T. Snijder ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
	After 10 years of operation, the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) telescope is undergoing a significant hardware upgrade towards LOFAR2.0. The hardware upgrade will enable the phased array telescope to observe at 10-90 MHz and at 120-240 MHz frequencies at the same time. With the upgrade comes also the chance to review LOFAR’s Control System and to make it ready for the next 10 years of operation at the forefront of low-frequency astronomy. In this work we will give a brief overview over the LOFAR telescope with its more than 50 geographically distributed receiver locations (LOFAR Stations), and the software that is necessary to monitor and control every single one of them. We will then describe the Station Control architecture, with its software design and how it is implemented in Python 3 with Tango Controls, OPC-UA clients and deployed as Docker containers. Lastly we will report on the successful use of open stack software like ELK and, Grafana.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOAR03
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 18 October 2021 Accepted ※ 03 November 2021 Issue date ※ 06 February 2022
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MOPV046	Tango Controls Device Attribute extension in Python3
	T. Snijder, T. Juerges, J.J.D. Mol ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
	The Tango Controls Device Attributes represent a container for read-only or read-write data types. However the Attribute read/write functions need to be individually implemented for accessing structured data in hardware devices. This exposes a pattern of replicated code in the read and write functions. Maintaining this code becomes time consuming to maintain when a Device exposes tens or more Attributes. The solution we propose is to extend Tango Control Attributes. For that we combine a hardware access class (accessor) that reads and writes the structured data in hardware together with a small addition to the original Attribute declaration. The extended Attribute constructor provides information that describes how the accessor can locate a value in the hardware. This information is then used to provide the extended Attribute with a parameterised read or write function. The benefits of our solution are that various methods of hardware access can be efficiently and easily implemented and that new extended Attributes can be added with a single line of code. We have successfully used the extended Attributes with OPC-UA, SNMP, and INI-files in ASTRON’s LOFAR2.0 Station Control program.
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LOFAR2.0: Station Control Upgrade

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T. Juerges, J.J.D. Mol, T. Snijder
ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

After 10 years of operation, the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) telescope is undergoing a significant hardware upgrade towards LOFAR2.0. The hardware upgrade will enable the phased array telescope to observe at 10-90 MHz and at 120-240 MHz frequencies at the same time. With the upgrade comes also the chance to review LOFAR’s Control System and to make it ready for the next 10 years of operation at the forefront of low-frequency astronomy. In this work we will give a brief overview over the LOFAR telescope with its more than 50 geographically distributed receiver locations (LOFAR Stations), and the software that is necessary to monitor and control every single one of them. We will then describe the Station Control architecture, with its software design and how it is implemented in Python 3 with Tango Controls, OPC-UA clients and deployed as Docker containers. Lastly we will report on the successful use of open stack software like ELK and, Grafana.

Slides MOAR03 [8.746 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOAR03

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Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 18 October 2021 Accepted ※ 03 November 2021 Issue date ※ 06 February 2022

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MOPV046

Tango Controls Device Attribute extension in Python3

T. Snijder, T. Juerges, J.J.D. Mol
ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

The Tango Controls Device Attributes represent a container for read-only or read-write data types. However the Attribute read/write functions need to be individually implemented for accessing structured data in hardware devices. This exposes a pattern of replicated code in the read and write functions. Maintaining this code becomes time consuming to maintain when a Device exposes tens or more Attributes. The solution we propose is to extend Tango Control Attributes. For that we combine a hardware access class (accessor) that reads and writes the structured data in hardware together with a small addition to the original Attribute declaration. The extended Attribute constructor provides information that describes how the accessor can locate a value in the hardware. This information is then used to provide the extended Attribute with a parameterised read or write function. The benefits of our solution are that various methods of hardware access can be efficiently and easily implemented and that new extended Attributes can be added with a single line of code. We have successfully used the extended Attributes with OPC-UA, SNMP, and INI-files in ASTRON’s LOFAR2.0 Station Control program.

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