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To obtain control system names and values, AIDA is accessible from the linux command line, via aidaWeb https://seal.slac.stanford.edu/aidaweb, through matlab and other language interfaces.
For FACET, the AIDA interface will provide SLC model data, .... (BPM? etc.?)
Basically, to get data from AIDA, use the function
aidaget(aida_name, type, params)
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