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The HPS Monitoring Application is a Java Swing GUI application which provides an online data monitoring framework for the experiment.

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Label	Name	Description
1	Application Menu Bar	contains menus with commands
2	Status Panel	application's current status (connected or disconnected)
3	Date Panel	shows when status last changed
4	Control Buttons	used to connect, disconnect, pause, continue, etc.
5	Data Source	available data sources (files or ET)
6	Event Dashboard	statistics for the current session
7	System Status Monitor Tab	system status monitoring tables (for alarms)
8	Log Tab	list of application log messages
9	Trigger Diagnostics	shows trigger diagnostics info when the right Driver is active in the job
10	Plot Panel	shows the current set of plots in the session
11	Plot Info Panel	shows information about the currently selected plot

Starting and Stopping a Session

Session Management

You can start a new monitoring session by clicking on the connect button in the GUI.

When the application is disconnected, as it will be just after starting up, the button will look like this.

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Clicking the button will connect a new session using the currently configured settings.

After connecting, the button's appearance will change.

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Settings can be configured in the GUI by clicking on Open Settings Window under the Settings menu.

The first tab contains settings for configuring the application's connection to an ET server.

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Setting	Description	Notes
ET Name	name of the ET buffer file
Host	ET server's TCP/IP hostname
Port	port for connection to server
Blocking	block when reading from ET system	usually should be deselected
Verbose	run ET station in verbose mode
Station Name	the name of the ET station used by the monitoring application	should not exist already
Chunk Size		number of chunks encoded together	typically one chunk corresponds with an EVIO event
Queue Size		the queue (cue?) size	not sure what this means!
Station Position	station's position in the chain of ET stations
Wait Mode	wait mode for when events are not immediately available
Wait Time	in timed Wait Mode, determines how long to wait for events before giving up

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Setting	Description	Notes
Steering File Resource	path to steering file jar resource
Steering File	path to steering file on disk	use the Select Steering File button to choose a file
Steering Type	choose whether a file or resource is used	determines whether the Steering File or Steering File Resource value is used
Processing Stage	limit event processing to a certain stage	event processing will be done up to and including the selected stage
Detector Name	name of detector model
Detector Resources Directory	used to select a directory with detector resources	implements detector aliasing as the selected detector may override a known detector
User Run Number	provide a run number to override those from the events
Conditions Tag	select a conditions tag for limiting returned conditions data
Freeze Detector Conditions	prevent conditions system from using run numbers in the data	may only be used when run number and detector are provided
Max Events	max events to read before disconnecting	-1 means unlimited
LCSim Event Builder	select the builder for creating LCSim events	default should be fine
Disconnect on error	disconnect if there are any errors
Disconnect on end run	disconnect when run ends
Log to File	log messages to a file instead of the log table
Log File Name	log file name if logging to a file instead of the log table

	Wait Time