AliECS

The ALICE Experiment Control System

Install instructions

What is your use case?

• I want to run AliECS and other O²/FLP software

  :arrow_right: O²/FLP Suite deployment instructions

  These instructions apply to both single-node and multi-node deployments.

  Contact alice-o2-flp-support for assistance with provisioning and deployment.

• I want to ensure AliECS can run and control my process

  • My software is based on FairMQ and/or O² DPL

    :palm_tree: Nothing to do, AliECS natively supports FairMQ (and DPL) devices.

  • My software does not use FairMQ and/or DPL, but should be controlled through a state machine

    :telescope: See the OCC documentation to learn how to integrate the O² Control and Configuration library with your software. Readout is currently the only example of this setup.

  • My software is a command line utility with no state machine

    :palm_tree: Nothing to do, AliECS natively supports generic commands. Make sure the task template for your command sets the control mode to basic (see example).

• I want to build and run AliECS for development purposes

  :hammer_and_wrench: Building instructions

  :arrow_right: Running instructions

• I want to communicate with AliECS via one of the plugins

  • Receive updates on running environments via Kafka

Using AliECS

There are two ways of interacting with AliECS:

• The AliECS GUI - not in this repository, but included in most deployments, recommended

  :arrow_right: AliECS GUI documentation

• coconut - the command-line control and configuration utility, included with AliECS core

  :arrow_right: Using coconut

  :arrow_right: coconut command reference