GlossaryΒΆ

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
PyQt4
Python framework for GUI and other Qt components
trigger PV
EPICS PV that signals an email is to be sent