pvWebMonitor Package: read_config Module

read XML configuration file for pvWebMonitor package

pvWebMonitor.read_config.patterns_1_0(*args)

config_1_0 relies on a pre-defined list of file match patterns

pvWebMonitor.read_config.patterns_1_0_1(*args)

config_1_0_1 uses a user-defined list of file match patterns

pvWebMonitor.read_config.read_xml(xml_file)

return the configuration details as a dictionary

Parameters:return – dictionary

the dictionary WILL contain these definitions for use by pvwatch.PvWatch():

dictionary key	example (type)	description
PVLIST_FILE	pvlist.xml	PVs to be monitored
LOCAL_WWW_LIVEDATA_DIR	./localwww	absolute path to local directory with “web site”
LOG_INTERVAL_S	300 (float)	writing messages to log file
REPORT_INTERVAL_S	10 (float)	updates to HTML pages
SLEEP_INTERVAL_S	0.1 (float)	sleeps at end of main loop
MAINLOOP_COUNTER_TRIGGER	10000 (int)	another logging message interval
PATTERNS	*.html	upload all files that match these patterns