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Description
IC@MS — Integrated Critical Alarms Management Software — is a web-based alarm-management platform for Tango-based scientific facilities. It provides a browser-based operator console for alarm monitoring, acknowledgement, configuration, filtering, history browsing, role-based access and API integration. IC@MS builds on the existing Tango alarm ecosystem rather than replacing it: it can work with proven alarm engines such as PANIC/PyAlarm and AlarmHandler, while modernising the operator and engineering workflow around them.
This talk presents recent IC@MS work and lessons from the 2026 source-code handover to the SKA Observatory, under BSD-3-compatible licensing.
We will also discuss preliminary SKAO load-test feedback using dummy alarms in an AlarmHandler environment: 100 and 300 dummy alarms triggered the test alarm nearly instantly, while 500 dummy alarms produced approximately 1–1.5 seconds of latency.
The advantage of IC@MS is its role as a unifying, web-native alarm-management layer: it preserves existing Tango alarm engines while adding modern UI, RBAC, REST/Swagger APIs, history, multi-user operation, deployment portability and a practical open-source model.
The presentation will invite the Tango community to discuss whether a shared alarm console profile could help standardise alarm metadata, state semantics, acknowledgement, notifications and archive integration across facilities.
| Tags | Alarms, client, web |
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