Deploy: Create a standalone version of LabView Modules for Ibex

[AdrianPotter]

Currently Ibex uses a few pieces of LabView Modules, but this is outside of our change control and mixes read-only executables with read-write instrument settings. As a (self-aggrandising) system architect I would like a standalone version of LabView modules for Ibex that contains no instrument-specific information.

• The final folder does not have to be called LabView modules, it just needs to contains the VIs we need for IOCs that use LVDCOM. I imagine this would be a new submodule.
• We would only need a few VIs, most of LabVeiw Modules is unused by Ibex
• The VIs use an INI file that sets instrument-specific settings. This should be moved into Instrument settings and the pointer to the file in the VI should be updated
• Wherever the INI files are placed, they should be stored in the version control by the file watcher

[ChrisM-S]

There seem to be three or four layers related to "intelligent" third-party applications which we may write some code for and we run as part of Ibex. As with "settings", it would be useful to identify generic paths where this sort of code lives. I don't know if it might be in support modules, but I'm sort of hoping "LabVIEWModules" would naturally find a place in the same tree as the others. I've tried to group them below by example.

The reason this matters is that each storage "class" will be handled differently, the link to the VHDs with different storage types can be done at any folder level but obviously fewer links make the structure easier to maintain.

Platform (installed+system code)	Our Code (common, loaded with IBEX) R/O	Settings R/W+git (inst specific)	Valuable produced or recorded data
Installed with OS platform	Installed with IBEX install	Initialized/saved/recovered on per instrument basis	Moved and archived
No backup (platform kept)	No backup	backup per inst	backup as cache (per inst) until archived
-----	------	-----	-----
LabVIEW	Ibex VIs	.ini files	diagnostics logs
Python	Ibex Python code	config settings files	???
MySQL	SQL scripts	recorded settings (my.ini)	experiment parameter logs
Java	Ibex Java code	Java Client/Server settings	???
ICP	standard IBEX GENIE python scripts	Tables	saved Nexus files
NI DAQ	NiDAQ tasks	configuration files	saved data files

[Tom-Willemsen]

I think this is probably covered - at least in part - by https://github.com/isiscomputinggroup/ibex_vis ?