Author: Di Frischia, S.
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TUMBCMO09 Front-End Monitor and Control Web Application for Large Telescope Infrastructures: A Comparative Analysis 359
 
  • S. Di Frischia, M. Canzari
    INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy
  • V. Alberti
    INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
  • A. Georgiou
    CGI, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • H.R. Ribeiro
    Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal
  
  A ro­bust mon­i­tor and con­trol front-end ap­pli­ca­tion is a cru­cial fea­ture for large and scal­able radio tele­scope in­fra­struc­tures such LOFAR and SKA, whereas the con­trol sys­tem is re­quired to man­age nu­mer­ous at­tribute val­ues at a high up­date rate, and thus the op­er­a­tors must rely on an af­ford­able user-in­ter­face plat­form which cov­ers the whole range of op­er­a­tions. In this paper two state-of-the-art web ap­pli­ca­tions such Grafana and Taranta are taken into ac­count, de­vel­op­ing a com­par­a­tive analy­sis be­tween the two soft­ware suites. Such a choice is mo­ti­vated mostly be­cause of their wide­spread use to­gether with the TANGO Con­trols Frame­work, and the ne­ces­sity to offer a ground of com­par­i­son for large pro­jects deal­ing with the de­vel­op­ment of a mon­i­tor and con­trol GUI which in­ter­faces to TANGO. We ex­plain at first the gen­eral ar­chi­tec­ture of both sys­tems, and then we cre­ate a typ­i­cal use-case where an in­ter­ac­tive dash­board is built to mon­i­tor and con­trol a hard­ware de­vice. Then, we set up some com­pa­ra­ble met­rics to eval­u­ate the pros and cons of both plat­forms, re­gard­ing the tech­ni­cal and op­er­a­tional re­quire­ments, fault tol­er­ances, de­vel­op­ers and op­er­a­tors ef­forts, and so on. In con­clu­sion, the com­par­a­tive analy­sis and its re­sults are sum­ma­rized with the aim to offer the stake­hold­ers a basis for fu­ture choices.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO09  
About • Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 22 November 2023 — Issued ※ 27 November 2023
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