AUTOMATIC CONSOLE SCREEN MANAGEMENT FOR ACCELERATOR CONTROL ROOM APPLICATIONS

The number of control and diagnostic applications in accelerator control rooms has become very large. Some of the applications are running permanently, the use of others frequently depends on the accelerator state. The shift crew of the control room in DESY, Hamburg expressed a strong interest in having a console management system, driven by accelerator-related events (such as magnet cycling, injection, run, etc.), which launches appropriate applications and arranges windows on the screens. As a part of the system a remote configuration tool should be provided which offers remote access to each console computer, and permits definition of the set of applications for a given accelerator state, as well as remote start, stop and monitoring of the applications, access to local log files etc. We describe the implementation of such a system for Microsoft Windows XP based consoles.