murmur: A Message Generator and Reporter for Unix, VMS and VxWorks
Gary Sergey, G Oleynik, Moore, Cristopher, L. Udumula, Appleton, L, B. MacKinnon · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1992
This paper describes the software product, ``murmur,`` a message generation, reporting, display and logging software system that we have developed for use in data acquisition systems at Fermilab. ``murmur`` is a tool for the production and management of message reporting. Its usefulness ranges from software product development and maintenance to system level shakedown and diagnostics. ``murmur`` provides a VMS MESSAGE-like function code generation utility, a client routine package for sending these codes over the network to a central server, and a server which translates the codes into meaningful visual information, writes the information to a logfile and displays it on X windows. Information associated with message codes such as message text, message color, X display configuration and routing information, and other related information are kept in fast access keyed files and can be modified by a set of Motif based configuration editors. As a result, ``murmur`` provides advanced features such as popping up help when a displayed message is clicked on by the mouse and executing ``action`` shell scripts when selected messages are received by the server. The server and editors are written in C++ for extensibility and maintainability, and are currently available on Sun and SGI systems. The client library is written in C, and has a Fortran binding as well. Clients are supported on SGI IRIX, Sun SunOS, IBM AIX, DEC ULTRIX, VAX VMS, and under the VxWorks real-time kernel operating system.