Installation manual
Usually, RIBFDAQ is already installed in RIBFDAQ computers. Experimentalists don't have to install DAQ software into your computers. To change the configuration of DAQ, please read the Setup page. If you want to use our DAQ software, please refer this page.
babirlDAQ is a software package for RIBFDAQ including Event builder, Event sender, and some utilities. To take data from CAMAC/VME, NBBQ which includes device drivers is required. babirlDAQ and NBBQ run under Linux (from 2.2 to 2.6 kernel). Sometimes, our device driver don't have the compatibility with the latest kernel.
babirl
Linux distributions and Firewall
babirl can run under Linux (32/64 bit). Here, Scientific Linux is assumed, but, any distributions could be used.
babirl uses may non usual network ports such as 17502, 17511, 17512 ... You have to disable the firewall or open some ports (defined in include/bi-config.h). The easiest way is:
system-config-firewall-tui
(uncheck Enabled)
If you are not sure about SELinux, it makes easy if you disable SELinux (edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux):
#SELINUX=enforcing SELINUX=disabled
required packages
Basic babirl
In the case of Scientific Linux, Commands
make gcc
Libraries
zlib-devel (chkridf, prinfo) ncurses-devel (babicon) readline-devel (babicon) expat-devel (babiau, babild, babinfo)
For example, you can install by using yum,
yum install zlib-devel
with Web Utilities (apache + php)
babirl can be controlled from Web browser. To use web utilities, apache and php are required:
httpd php php-cli php-common php-xml libxslt
with Database (postgresql)
babirl can connect to postgresql to store Run and Scaler information. When we use time stamping system, the use of database helps us. In this case, some postgresql packages are required:
postgresql postgresql-libs postgresql-devel
By tar file
Get a tar file from Download page.
su cd /usr tar zxvf babirl111210.tar.gz ln -s babirl111210 babirl cd babirl make
By svn repository (from RIKEN inside only)
Please ask...
User mode babirl
Server mode babirl requires permission of the super user, but this feature is no good for most people. And this user mode babirl is suitable for a test bench of detectors. Please refer Test Bench
Compilation with DB access
If you try to use DB, please modify /usr/babirl/common.mk
# Use of DB USEDB = 1
And compile,
make clean make
Install of Web Utilities
Setting of httpd
Start httpd (if necessary):
/sbin/service httpd start
It is useful to start at the OS start up:
/sbin/chkconfig --level 35 httpd on
If you want to use web utilities in user directory, please modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<IfModule mod_userdir.c> #UserDir disabled UserDir public_html </IfModule>
Then, reload httpd
/sbin/service httpd reload
It is better to set the timezone in /etc/php.ini, like this:
[Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone date.timezone = "Asia/Tokyo"
Copy files
cd ~ chmod 755 $HOME (or 711, if necessary) mkdir public_html/ cp -r /usr/babirl/webutil ./public_html/ chmod 777 public_html/webutil/xml chmod 777 public_html/webutil/dat
First access to web utilities
Please access to http://USERHOST/~USERID/webutil,
you could see:
Index page Please edit user definition file : edituserdef.php
If not, for example, 403 Forbidden, please check the permission of directories and the setting of SELinux.
About setup of web utilities, please see DAQ/Manual/Setup/WebUtility.
Process controller (babimo)
The babimo is a daemon process for managing DAQ processes. This program is not a safe process, however very useful. You must not run this daemon for commonly used servers, better to use under DAQ computers, only.
It is useful to start at boot time (for Scientific Linux 6):
cp /usr/babirl/rcd/babimo /etc/rc.d/init.d/ /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 babimo on /sbin/service babimo start
for CentOS, Rocky, Alma 7 or 8 case,
cp /usr/babirl/rcd/babimo.service /etc/systemd/system/ systemctl enable babimo systemctl start babimo
Online analysis buffer
To use online analysis or monitor programs, babian is required. babian receives on-line data from the event builder. User can obtain on-line data through the shared memory. For data transfer for on-line, UDP/IP protocol is used. Then it is not guaranteed to receive all on-line data. And also the 1 block size must be less than 64KBytes.
It is useful to start at boot time:
cp /usr/babirl/rcd/babian /etc/rc.d/init.d/ /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 babian on /sbin/service babian start
NBBQ
By tar file
Get a tar file from Download page. And copy file to /tmp directory.
su cd /tmp tar zxvf nbbq-****.tar.gz cd nbbq-****/ ./config make make install
Event sender
CC/NET
To use your CC/NET as a babirl event sender, please install NBBQ and babirl. 'pcc' is the default device driver for CC/NET. However, NBBQ has a original device driver (bb-ccnet) developed by H.B. 'pcc' and 'bb-ccnet' conflict each other. So, to use NBBQ, unregistration of pcc is required.
VMIVME
In RIBFDAQ, the netboot system (diskless system) is available for VMIVME 7807 and 7700 with PXE boot. To register client VMIVME to the server (=g01), MAC address is required. During the PXE boot process, you can find MAC address on the displey. If you would like to use VMIVME with netboot (diskless), please tell us the MAC address.
Netboot environment
It is good idea to use diskless VME controller. In RIBF, VME controllers don't use disk drive, OS image is downloaded from the server.
To build netboot environment, please see Netboot.