Installing and Using the PVSS-PCMon Toolkit on Linux or Windows
Latest version Release Notes

Installation:

• Get the FwPCMon Zip file and extract it into a directory (this will create an FwPCMon directory).
  Note: This zip is ready for PVSS 2.12, 2.12.1 and 3.0 Official Release
• If you are a JCOP Framework user
  • Please use the FW Installation tool to install FwPCMon
    • Choose FwPCMon as the place to "Look for new components"
    • Remember to run PVSS00ctrl -f fwScripts.lst
    • This will install it into the directory of your choice, from here on called "Installation Directory" (can be checked on "Advanced Options").
• Otherwise
  • For installation without the FW Installation tool please click here

Preparation:

• Start a DIM Name Server (if not yet done):
• For Windows
  • double click on <Installation Directory>/bin/Dns.exe
• For Linux
  • source <Installation Directory>/bin/fwPCMon.csh (or fwPCMon.sh)
  • type Dns&

Usage:

On your PVSS project:

• Start the DIM Manager (from the PVSS Console):
  • PVSS00dim -dim_dp_config PCMonDimConfig -dim_dns_node dns_node_name
• Start a Native Vision Module to Visualize the System
• PVSS00NV -num N -m vision -p fwPCMon/PCservices.pnl    (or PVSS00ui ...)

You can then start "Pcmon" servers locally or remotely using the executables in <Installation Directory>/bin:

• Set the environment variable DIM_DNS_NODE to <node name>, <node name> is the complete name of the node where the DIM Name Server (Dns) is running, ex. pcepdelp01.cern.ch or lxplus003.cern.ch.
• On Windows
  • double click on <Installation Directory>/bin/Pcmon.exe
• On Linux
  • source <Installation Directory>/bin/fwPCMon.csh (or fwPCMon.sh)
    • basically to add the path to libdim.so into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • type Pcmon&