40th Tango Community meeting at ALBA

Web-based alarm management: How hard can it be?

10 Jun 2026, 10:20

20m

Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

Talk Community Device Classes, Tools, and Applications Community Device Classes, Tools, and Applications

Speaker

Thomas Juerges (SKAO)

Description

Operating a facility or running an experiment is simple and easy when things are working exactly as expected. But usually they do not. There is always something broken. And there is always something that does something entirely surprising, be it hardware or software.
Would it not be nice to be able to stay on top of such developments? If an operator, remotely or on site, could assess the current situation and take appropriate measures?
That is the moment when an Alarm Management System comes handy. It provides an overview of the current issues in a system, automatically notifies relevant stakeholders and allows an operator to make informed decisions about the current state of affairs: Abort or continue?
In this talk I will present the latest addition to the SKAO software protfolio: The SKAO Alarm Management System (SKAAMS). An IEC 62682 compatible system that ticks all the boxes for SKAO: It is a native Tango Controls citizen, runs in Kubernetes, is IEC 62682 compatible and provides a web-based frontend.