Midas documentation

• Introduction What Midas is used for

• History Brief history of the Midas development

• File tree organization Distribution package

• Documentation organization How to look for information in this document

• Appendix
  • Current supported Hardware

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• Installation Installation & Quick start

• Feature listing Description of Midas features

• Application listing Description and usage of the Midas programs

• Online Database Description of each ODB structure

• Core

   data acquisition concept
     transition sequence
     sequencer
   frontend client concept, management
     network frontend (mserver)
     data format (banks)
   event notification concept  (hot-link)
     Note on the ODB hotlink function (db_open_record())
   alarms concept
     Note on the alarm system
   data logging concept
     data compression
     data storage option
     secondary logging (lazy logger)
   history concept
     history format
   Web server
     status display
     alias, scripts
     elog
     custom pages
       JSON interface  
     program
     sequencer
     

• 2 Frontend

  Description, equipment concept
  Frontend application: structure, sequence flow
  Event Builder concept

• 3 Data Logging

  Description, channel concept, history manager
  Data logger applications
  mlogger, lazylogger, history

• 4 Analysis

  Analyzer, Rootana, Midas hooks

• 6 Midas Tools/applications

  Few comments first
  <midas apps> -h for help

  mserver: deamon, port  specification
  odbedit: creation, size change
  mdump  : purpose
  mhist, mlxspeaker, mstat, ...