7.2. Hardware Infrastructure

The current and planned improvements to the MEC rack and cabling infrastructure are documented in this section.  Here are the topics being covered:

Existing configuration:

• The graphical rack map is here: Rack Map

  • Corrections to Rack Map

    • B999-PR62
      • Link on main hutch map goes to B999-60 instead (fixed)
    • B999-S64
      • Recheck photos
      • EL11 Unused Fiber Patch Panel → Lightwave
      • EL10 BNC Patch Panel to R60-11 J15./J18 → Empty
• Target Chamber Flanges
• 7.2.1 Patch Panels: Patch panel locations and usage
• Current assets
• Standard configurations

Cabling OIP:

• 10.7.3. Cable Management Improvement Project
• Project pages on MEC team drive
• Schedule in Smartsheet

PR60 (EL 2/3) Stepper Motor Patch Panel

Rack Spreadsheet

Data from the 6 December 2023 version of the Rack Map was copied into a master Google Sheet named MEC RACK DB. For now it only includes the hutch racks, not those on the mezzanine. The Motors data was updated on 8 April 2024.

Rack Data

The following columns are currently displayed on the first "Rack Data" sheet:

• Rack
• Side (FRONT/BACK)
• Contents
• Elevation

Cameras

A list of GIGE cameras is extracted from the IOC log files via a python script. The specific log files searched are /reg/d/iocData/ioc*mec*gige*/iocInfo/ioc.log.

The sheet columns are:

• Camera Type
• IOC
• Channel
• Model
• XSize
• YSize
• Version

Servers

This is a filter view of Rack Data.

=FILTER('Rack Data'!A:E, REGEXMATCH(UPPER('Rack Data'!C:C), "^DAQ-|^IOC-"))

Motors

A list of IMS, NEWPORT, and SMARTACT motor channels is extracted from the IOC log files via a python script. The specific log files searched are /reg/d/iocData/ioc*mec*/iocInfo/ioc.log. 

The sheet columns are:

• Motor Type
• IOC
• Channel
• I/O

IOCs

The list of IOCs deployed in iocmanager was downloaded from EPICS IOCs Deployed in IOC Manager on 19 December 2023. 

The sheet columns are:

• name
• alias
• host
• port
• disable
• script
• binary
• dir
• config_file