Glossary
- CA
- EPICS Channel Access protocol
- CLI
- command-line interface
- EPICS
- http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics
- GUI
- graphical user interface
- IOC
- EPICS Input/Output Controller, the EPICS server
- message PV
- EPICS PV that provides the text to be sent by email,
additional metadata is appended to this text
- OS
- operating system
- PV
- EPICS process variable
- PvMail
- Name of the Python package that provides the pvMail executable
- pvMail
- Name of the pvMail executable
- PyEpics
- Python package to manage connections with PVs served by an EPICS IOC
- Traits
- Python package to simplify construction of a GUI
- trigger PV
- EPICS PV that signals an email is to be sent