A Docker Distribution of BEAUTY

The CS-Studio based RDB Channel Archiver for EPICS is an Eclipse "plugin" for CS-Studio that runs in headless mode. It's sometimes called “Best Ever Archive Toolset, yet” (BEAUTY).

Docker Configuration

The distribution is split into two containers:

• one container running a PostgreSQL database (beauty-db), and
• another one running the archiver application (beauty-app).

They need to be connected to the same docker network.

Ready-to-use images can be found on the Docker Hub: pklaus/beauty.

Further Technical Info About BEAUTY

Technical Information:

• The two subfolders db and app contain the sources to build the docker images.
• This distribution uses the compiled versions from SNS.
• The SQL files with the database schema used for setting up the PostgreSQL container is mostly taken from the dbd folder of the plugin org.csstudio.archive.rdb.

Furher resources on BEAUTY:

• CS-Studio Wiki (on Github):
  • RDB Archive Basic Info
  • RDB Archive Engine Info
• Old but rather complete documentation on the CS-Studio RDB Archiver (on SourceForge)
• SNS CS-Studio developer documentation on the RDB Archiver with further links (on sns.ornl.gov)
• Source code of the relevant CS-Studio plugins:
  • org.csstudio.archive.engine
  • org.csstudio.archive.config
  • org.csstudio.archive.rdb