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          <authors>
             <author>Finch, I.D.</author>
             <author>Howells, G.D.</author>
             <author>Saoulis, A.A.</author>
          </authors>
       </contributors>
       <titles>
          <title>
             Controls Data Archiving at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source for In-Depth Analysis and ML Applications
          </title>
       </titles>
       <publisher>JACoW Publishing</publisher>
       <pub-location>Geneva, Switzerland</pub-location>
		 <isbn>2226-0358</isbn>
		 <isbn>978-3-95450-221-9</isbn>
		 <electronic-resource-num>10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-WEPV049</electronic-resource-num>
		 <language>English</language>
		 <pages>780-783</pages>
       <keywords>
          <keyword>EPICS</keyword>
          <keyword>controls</keyword>
          <keyword>software</keyword>
          <keyword>neutron</keyword>
          <keyword>database</keyword>
       </keywords>
       <work-type>Contribution to a conference proceedings</work-type>
       <dates>
          <year>2022</year>
          <pub-dates>
             <date>2022-03</date>
          </pub-dates>
       </dates>
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              <url>https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-WEPV049</url>
              <url>https://jacow.org/icalepcs2021/papers/wepv049.pdf</url>
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       </urls>
       <abstract>
          The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source accelerators are currently operated using Vsystem control software. Archiving of controls data is necessary for immediate fault finding, to facilitate analysis of long-term trends, and to provide training datasets for machine learning applications. While Vsystem has built-in logging and data archiving tools, in recent years we have greatly expanded the range and quantity of data archived using an open-source software stack including MQTT as a messaging system, Telegraf as a metrics collection agent, and the Influx time-series database as a storage backend. Now that ISIS has begun the transition from Vsystem to EPICS this software stack will need to be replaced or adapted. To explore the practicality of adaptation, a new Telegraf plugin allowing direct collection of EPICS data has been developed. We describe the current Vsystem-based controls data archiving solution in use at ISIS, future plans for EPICS, and our plans for the transition while maintaining continuity of data.
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