> Hi, our logger was running.

Please do these simple tests:

- run "mlogger -v", it should report that it is writing slow/slow data into the history with rate 1 Hz (fetest 
should be running at this point, yes?)
- normally the history files are written into the experiment directory (where ODB is, etc) and have file names 
"*.hst". Observe that the files are growing. Use "ls -ltr". (mlogger and fetest should be running at this point, 
yes?)
- if all if this is happening, you can try to run "mhist" to see the history data

If all of the above works, but you still get nothing from the history plots in mhttpd, then we probably have a 
bug in midas and we would like very much to fix it. For this we will need some more information from you. I 
hope you have some time available to help us with this.

Hmm... the fetest history plots are not defined automatically, you have to create the history plot manually,
maybe this is where the problem happens. One thing to check here, the correct variable to plot
is "slow/slow", if I remember right.


K.O.


> I have tried restarting mlogger (even though we haven't
> changed variable names). We ran the following commands one after another and still no
> luck with history plot. Is there anything else that could be causing these problems?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Hassan 
> 
> 
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==
> 
> [lm17773@it038146 ~]$ cd /opt/midas_software/midas/bin/
> [lm17773@it038146 bin]$ mhttpd
> [mhttpd,ERROR] [odb.cxx:1646:db_open_database,ERROR] Removed ODB client 'mhttpd',
> index 0 because process pid 20094 does not exists
> [mhttpd,ERROR] [odb.cxx:1646:db_open_database,ERROR] Removed ODB client 'Logger',
> index 1 because process pid 20214 does not exists
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Experiment/Security/RPC hosts/Allowed hosts"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Experiment/Security/RPC
> hosts/Allowed hosts"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Experiment/Security/mhttpd hosts/Allowed
> hosts"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Experiment/Security/mhttpd
> hosts/Allowed hosts"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Logger/History"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Logger/History"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Sequencer/State"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Sequencer/State"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/History/LoggerHistoryChannel"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/History/LoggerHistoryChannel"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Equipment/slow/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Equipment/slow/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Equipment/Trigger/Statistics/Events per
> sec."
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Equipment/Trigger/Statistics/Events
> per sec."
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Equipment/Trigger/Statistics/kBytes per
> sec."
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Equipment/Trigger/Statistics/kBytes
> per sec."
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Equipment/Periodic/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Equipment/Periodic/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed open record flag from "/Equipment/Scaler/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Removed exclusive access mode from "/Equipment/Scaler/Variables"
> [mhttpd,INFO] Corrected 10 ODB entries
> [mhttpd,INFO] Deleted entry '/System/Clients/20094' for client 'mhttpd' because it is
> not connected to ODB
> Mongoose web server will use SSL certificate file "/home/lm17773/online/ssl_cert.pem"
> Mongoose web server will use authentication realm "sampleexpt", password file
> "/home/lm17773/online/htpasswd.txt"
> mongoose web server is redirecting HTTP port 8080 to
> https://it038146.users.bris.ac.uk:8443
> mongoose web server is listening on the HTTP port 8080
> mongoose web server is listening on the HTTPS port 8443
> 
================================================================================
====
> 
> [lm17773@it038146 bin]$ mlogger
> [Logger,INFO] Deleted entry '/System/Clients/20214' for client 'Logger' because it is
> not connected to ODB
> Log     directory is /home/lm17773/online/
> Data    directory is same as Log unless specified in /Logger/channels/
> History directory is same as Log unless specified in /Logger/history/
> ELog    directory is same as Log
> SQL     database is localhost/sampleexpt/Runlog
> MIDAS logger started. Stop with "!"
> 
================================================================================
====
> [lm17773@it038146 bin]$ fetest
> Frontend name          :     fetest
> Event buffer size      :     10485760
> User max event size    :     4194304
> User max frag. size    :     4194304
> # of events per buffer :     2
> 
> Connect to experiment sampleexpt...
> OK
> Init hardware...frontend_init!
> Event size set to 10240 bytes
> Ring buffer wait sleep 1 ms
> OK
> time 1564131394, data 97.814758
> time 1564131395, data 96.592583
> time 1564131396, data 95.105652
> time 1564131397, data 93.358040
> time 1564131398, data 91.354546
> time 1564131399, data 89.100655
> time 1564131400, data 86.602539
> time 1564131401, data 83.867058
> time 1564131402, data 80.901703
> time 1564131403, data 77.714592
> Warning: bank RND4 has zero size
> time 1564131404, data 74.314484
> time 1564131405, data 70.710678
> time 1564131406, data 66.913063
> time 1564131407, data 62.932041
> 
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====
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We've been trying to run Fetest in the attempt of plotting the sine wave data on
> > > the history page on the web server. However each time we've tried running a new
> > > plot we have come across the error of 'no data' from the variables. In the
> > > status page we are clearly obtaining data from the frontend and it is updating
> > > the variable as expected in SLOW.
> > > 
> > > When setting up MIDAS we managed to produce a history plot from Fetest but are
> > > unable to do so any longer. We did have a go at modifying the Fetest code but
> > > created a backup before doing so and are now running the original backup.
> > > 
> > > What could be causing the Fetest data not to be showing in the history plot?
> > 
> > Is the logger running? (this application is handling the history data).
> > If yes: Did you change the variable names? If yes: restart the logger.