nxsconfigserver-db 1.10.3

Configuration Server DataBase

Authors: Jan Kotanski, Eugen Wintersberger, Halil Pasic

The package contains SQL files to create the MySQL database for Configuration Server.

NeXuS Configuration Server is a Tango Server with its implementation based on a MySQL database. It allows to store XML configuration datasources and components. It also gives possibility to select mandatory components and perform the process of component merging.

Source code: https://github.com/nexdatas/configserver-db

Web page: https://nexdatas.github.io/configserver-db

Installation

Install the dependencies:

MySQLdb, PyTango, sphinx

From sources

Download the latest version of NeXuS Configuration Server from

https://github.com/nexdatas/configserver

https://github.com/nexdatas/configserver-db

Extract the sources and run for both packages

$ python setup.py install

To set database execute

$ mysql < conf/mysql_create.sql

with proper privileges.

Debian packages

Debian Jessie (and Wheezy) packages can be found in the HDRI repository.

To install the debian packages, add the PGP repository key

$ sudo su
$ wget -q -O - http://repos.pni-hdri.de/debian_repo.pub.gpg | apt-key add -

and then download the corresponding source list

$ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ wget http://repos.pni-hdri.de/jessie-pni-hdri.list

Finally,

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python-nxsconfigserver nxsconfigserver-db

To instal other NexDaTaS packages

$ apt-get install python-nxswriter nxsconfigtool nxstools

and

$ apt-get install python-nxsrecselector nxselector python-sardana-nxsrecorder

for Component Selector and Sardana related packages.

From pip

To install it from pip you can

$ python3 -m venv myvenv
$ . myvenv/bin/activate

$ pip install nxsconfigserver-db

Moreover it is also good to install mysql to be able to execute

$ mysql < conf/mysql_create.sql

where mysql_create.sql is installed in myvenv/share/nxsconfigserver

Setting NeXus Configuration Server

To set up NeXus Configuration Server with the default configuration run

$ nxsetup -x NXSConfigServer

The nxsetup command comes from the python-nxstools package. It starts the NeXus Configuration Server and tries to find a proper value of the JSONSettings attribute.