DAQ Overview and Online Analysis - presented at 2010 SSRL/LCLS Users Meeting : LCLS Data Analysis Workshop

Operating the DAQ

• Editing a configuration
  • Example: Opal camera configuration
  • Changing a configuration while running
• Selecting detectors for readout
• Starting/stopping a run
• Watching progress of a run
• Running scans
  • Launching a Scan from DAQ Control GUI
  • Launching Scans Remotely (scripted)
• Running the sequencer
• Configuring the EVR
• Recovering from errors: restarting the DAQ

Online Monitoring

• Online Monitoring GUI
  • Using the Online Monitoring GUI
  • Writing a plug-in to the Online Monitoring GUI
  • Writing a user application (reads from shared memory)
  • Online Monitoring and Simulation Using Files
  • Writing a user application, offline analysis style (reads from a file)
• XTC playback

Python Scripting

• Editing configurations - the 'pycdb' module
• Controlling the DAQ - the 'pydaq' module
• Monitoring the data - the 'pyami' module