User guides

How-to guides for users of the EPNix project wanting to deploy EPICS-related services.

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• Prerequisites
  • Global prerequisites
  • NixOS flake
  • Hostname consistency
• Channel Access gateway setup
  • Enabling the gateway
  • Firewall on specific interfaces
  • Filtering IOCs
  • Filtering process variables
• ChannelFinder service setup
  • ChannelFinder service
  • RecCeiver
  • RecCaster
• Display Builder Web Runtime (DBWR)
  • Enabling DBWR
  • Configuring the address list
  • Configuring DBWR and PVWS
  • Serve displays
• EPICS environment
  • Default behavior
  • Setting the address list
  • Extending the address list for a service
  • Overriding the address list for a service
• EPICS firewall
  • Open the firewall for EPICS IOCs
  • pvAccess clients
  • Allow broadcast searches
• IOC services
  • Exposing a service from your IOC
  • Adding an external IOC
  • Firewall
  • Custom cmd file
  • Custom procServ options
  • Configuring the address list
  • Passing environment variables
  • Adding programs to the PATH
  • Further customization
• Phoebus Alarm single server setup
  • Single server Phoebus Alarm setup
  • Configuring topics
  • Configuring the address list
  • Configuring email support
• Phoebus client
  • Configure the preference settings
  • Configure the firewall
  • Configure the address list
  • Configure the colors
  • Configure the fonts
  • Set the Java virtual machine options
• Phoebus save-and-restore setup
  • Enabling the Phoebus save-and-restore service
  • Custom port
  • Authentication