Thanks for reporting and pointing to the right location.

I fixed and committed it.

Best,
Stefan

Thanks for reporting that bug, I fixed it in the last commit.

Stefan

> It looks like mhttpd managed to bind to the IPv4 address (localhost), but not the IPv6 address (::1). If you don't need it, try setting "/Webserver/Enable IPv6" to false.

We had this issue already several times. This info should be put into the documentation at a prominent location.

Stefan

> Thanks a lot, this solved my issue!

... or we should turn IPv6 off by default, since not many people use this right now.

I think this is a good idea and I support it. We have a similar problem in MEG and 
we solved that with external (bash) scripts called in case of alarms. One feature 
there we have is that for some alarms, several people want to get notified. So 
people can "subscribe" to certain alarms. The subscription are now handled inside 
Slack which I like better, but maybe it would be good to have more than one "user 
responsible". Like if one person is sleeping/traveling, it's good to have a 
substitute. Can you make an array out of that? Or a comma-separated list?

Best,
Stefan

This is a known problem and I'm working on. See the discussion at: 

https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/issues/305/log_history_periodic-doesnt-account-for

Stefan

> I can still make this an array and pass a std::vector<std::string> into 
> al_trigger_class function?

Maybe 256 chars are enough at the moment. If other people complain in the future, we can 
re-visit.

Stefan

> > > I can still make this an array and pass a std::vector<std::string> into 
> > > al_trigger_class function?
> > 
> > Maybe 256 chars are enough at the moment. If other people complain in the future, we can 
> > re-visit.
> > 
> > Stefan
> 
> Thinking about it, an array of maybe 80 character would give enough space for a name, a tag 
> and phone number. Do I need to budget memory very strictly? Would 32 entries of 80 
> characters be too much? 

On that level memory is cheap.

Stefan

MidasConfig.cmake might at some point get included in the standard Cmake installation (or some add-on). It will then reside in the Cmake system path 
and you don't have to explicitly know where this is. Just the find_package(Midas) will then be enough. 

Even if it's not there, the find_package() is the "traditional" way CMake discovers external packages and users are used to that (like ROOT does the 
same). In comparison, your "midas-targets.cmake" way of doing things, although this works certainly fine, is not the "standard" way, but a midas-
specific solution, other people have to learn extra.

Stefan

In MEG II we also kind of achieved this rate. Marco F. will post an entry soon to describe the details. There is only one thing 
I want to mention, which is our network switch. Instead of an expensive high-grade switch, we chose a cheap "Chinese" high-grade 
switch. We have "rack switches", which are collector switch for each rack receiving up to 10 x 1GBit inputs, and outputting 1 x 
10 GBit to an "aggregation switch", which collects all 10 GBit lines form rack switches and forwards it with (currently a single 
) 10 GBit line. For the rack switch we use a 

MikroTik CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+RM 54 port

and for the aggregation switch

MikroTik CRS326-24S-2Q+RM 26 Port

both cost in the order of 500 US$. We were astonished that they don't loose UDP packets when all inputs send a packet at the 
same time, and they have to pipe them to the single output one after the other, but apparently the switch have enough buffers 
(which is usually NOT written in the data sheets). 

To avoid UDP packet loss for several events, we do traffic shaping by arming the trigger only when the previous event is 
completely received by the frontend. This eliminates all flow control and other complicated methods. Marco can tell you the 
details.

Another interesting aspect: While we get the data into the frontend, we have problems in getting it through midas. Your 
bm_send_event_sg() is maybe a good approach which we should try. To benchmark the out-of-the-box midas, I run the dummy frontend 
attached on my MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD disk. I got

Event size: 7 MB

No logging: 900 events/s = 6.7 GBytes/s

Logging with LZ4 compression: 155 events/s = 1.2 GBytes/s

Logging without compression: 170 events/s = 1.3 GBytes/s

So with this simple approach I got already more than 1 GByte of "dummy data" through midas, indicating that the buffer 
management is not so bad. I did use the plain mfe.c frontend framework, no bm_send_event_sg() (but mfe.c uses rpc_send_event() which is an 
optimized version of bm_send_event()).

Best,
Stefan

I disagree with the proposed change to scale the HV current for a "nice" display. If values are scaled, the axis should be 
scaled in the same way. Otherwise people might read the current from the plot, look at the axis, and again get the wrong 
value (the factor of 25x you mention). Sure you can hover with the cursor over the graph, and see the right value, but think 
of taking a screen shot, putting this into a publication, and get complaints from the reviewer.

The only "correct" way in my opinion is to implement two vertical axis, as can be seen in some papers. One for the HV, and a 
new TBD right axis for the current values, then indicating for each graph if the left or right vertical axis applies. For 
the secondary axis we can have autoscaling or fixed scaling, as we have for the primary axis.

Stefan

Can you post your complete page here so that I can have a look?

Stefan

A general warning: With the recent history changes implemented in the develop branch, starting from a fresh ODB and editing 
any history panel, on gets tons of errors and debug output from mhttpd:

MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Minimum" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Minimum" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Maximum" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Maximum" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Zero ylow" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Log axis" returned status 312
MVOdb: Error: MIDAS db_get_value() at ODB path "/History/Display/Default/Trigger rate/Zero ylow" returned status 312
Load from ODB History/Display/Default/Trigger rate: hist plot: 2 variables
timescale: 1h, minimum: 0.000000, maximum: 0.000000, zero_ylow: 0, log_axis: 0, show_run_markers: 1, show_values: 1, 
show_fill: 1
var[0] event [System][Trigger per sec.] formula [], colour [#00AAFF] label [] factor 1.000000 offset 0.000000 voffset 
0.000000 order 10
var[1] event [System][Trigger kB per sec.] formula [], colour [#FF9000] label [] factor 1.000000 offset 0.000000 voffset 
0.000000 order 20



This has to be fixed by the original author. I strongly recommend to make such modifications on a separate branch not to 
break running experiments.

Stefan

> Hi all,
> for my experiment we ended up with the need of changing lot of parameters (~9000 values) in the ODB at once by the sequencer.
> The very first solution was to use a sequencer function with a ton of ODBSET calls, however a more elegant solution may be to provide an "ODBLoad" command which mimics the "load" command of odbedit.
> I already have a working modification to the sequencer for this, if you agree I will commit it to a dedicated brach.
> Let me know if you think this is a good approach.
> 
> Marco F

How can people judge your modification if they cannot see it? Why don't you make a pull request, so it can be properly reviewed.

Stefan

> > Hi all,
> > for my experiment we ended up with the need of changing lot of parameters (~9000 values) in the ODB at once by the sequencer.
> > The very first solution was to use a sequencer function with a ton of ODBSET calls, however a more elegant solution may be to provide an "ODBLoad" command which mimics the "load" command of odbedit.
> > I already have a working modification to the sequencer for this, if you agree I will commit it to a dedicated brach.
> > Let me know if you think this is a good approach.
> > 
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. I trust you are using the data in json format? Perhaps the command
> should be named "ODBLoadJSON" to be clear about this.
> 
> (JSON is preferred over .odb and .xml for many reasons (ask me))

What if some experiment keep some files in .xml format (ask me!). The routine should check for the extension and support all three formats.

Stefan

> > > > Hi all,
> > > > for my experiment we ended up with the need of changing lot of parameters (~9000 values) in the ODB at once by the sequencer.
> > > > The very first solution was to use a sequencer function with a ton of ODBSET calls, however a more elegant solution may be to provide an "ODBLoad" command which mimics the "load" command of odbedit.
> > > > I already have a working modification to the sequencer for this, if you agree I will commit it to a dedicated brach.
> > > > Let me know if you think this is a good approach.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sounds like a good idea. I trust you are using the data in json format? Perhaps the command
> > > should be named "ODBLoadJSON" to be clear about this.
> > > 
> > > (JSON is preferred over .odb and .xml for many reasons (ask me))
> > 
> > What if some experiment keep some files in .xml format (ask me!). The routine should check for the extension and support all three formats.
> > 
> 
> Yes, hard to tell without seeing his full proposal, including the code. If it is load from file,
> sure we look at the file extension, I think the existing code already would do this and support all 3 formats.
> 
> But if he wants to load ODB data from a text literal or from a string,
> we might as well stick to json. I guess we could support the other formats, but I do not see anybody
> using anything other than json for new code like this.
> 
> ODBPasteJSON("/foo/bar/baz", '{"var1":1, "var2":"somestr"}');

I agree that if one would paste a string to the ODB, then JSON would be best.

But at MEG, we keep hundreds of XML files for configuration. Mostly historical, but that's how it is.

Stefan

> For boolean and INT32 variables, modbcheckbox works as expected. You click, it 
> sets the variable to true or 1, the checkbox stays checked until you click again 
> and it's being set back to 0.
> 
> For UINT32 variables, you can turn the variable "on", but the checkbox visually 
> becomes unchecked immediately. Clicking again does not set the variable to 
> 0/false and the tick visually appears for a fraction of a second, but vanishes 
> again.

Thanks for reporting that bug. Fixed in

https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/commits/4ef26bdc5a32716efe8e8f0e9ce328bafad6a7bf

Stefan

I quickly checked the pull request and could not find any obvious problem, so I merged it.

Thanks for the contribution of MidasConfig.cmake. May I kindly ask for one extension:

Many of our frontends require inclusion of some midas-supplied drivers and libraries 
residing under

$MIDASSYS/drivers/class/
$MIDASSYS/drivers/device
$MIDASSYS/mscb/src/
$MIDASSYS/src/mfe.cxx

I guess this can be easily added by defining a MIDAS_SOURCES in MidasConfig.cmake, so 
that I can do things like:

add_executable(my_fe
  myfe.cxx
  $(MIDAS_SOURCES}/src/mfe.cxx
  ${MIDAS_SOURCES}/drivers/class/hv.cxx
  ...)

Does this make sense or is there a more elegant way for that?

Stefan

Well, we all see it here at PSI, so this is enough reason to turn this off by default. Shall 
I do it?