Standalone Tango Server job

Job for standalone Tango servers controlled by a systemd service.

This is basically a systemd job, with the additional feature of transferring the server resources from a file into the Tango database when the config file is edited via Marche.

This job has the following configuration parameters:

[job.xxx]

type

Must be tangosrv.

srvname

Name of the server (for determining config files). Default is the job name.

resdir

The configuration for the server is expected in a resource file located in this directory. If not given, file /etc/default/tango should contain a line TANGO_RES_DIR=resdir.

resformat

The resource file may have different formats: ‘legacy’, ‘tango’.

The ‘legacy’ format is default and is the original one derived from the TACO resource file format.

The ‘tango’ format is the ‘official’ one, which is used by the Jive tool. https://tango-controls.readthedocs.io/en/9.2.5/manual/F-property.html#property-file-syntax

This job inherits from the Systemd service job, and therefore supports all its other configuration parameters.

A typical section looks like this:

[job.Counter]
type = tangosrv

This will start/stop via tango-server-counter.service (the unit name can be overridden with the unit parameter as for the systemd job).