Configuring ts_salobj

Environment Variables

Environment variables used by ts_salobj for configuration. If setting these via os.environ please be sure to set these to string values, even if they are parsed as integers or floats.

Used by Vortex OpenSplice, and thus indirectly by Domain:

  • ADLINK_LICENSE (optional) points to directory containing your Vortex OpenSplice license. Required if using the licensed version of Vortex OpenSplice. Example: /opt/ADLINK/Vortex_v2/Device/VortexOpenSplice/6.10.3/HDE/x86_64.linux/etc
  • OSPL_HOME (required) directory of the Vortex OpenSplice software. This directory should contain subdirectories bin, include, lib, etc. Example: /opt/OpenSpliceDDS/V6.9.0/HDE/x86_64.linux.
  • OSPL_MASTER_PRIORITY (optional) is used to set the Master Priority in ts_sal 4.2 and later. Nodes with higher Master Priority are more eager to become master (the primary source of late joiner data). Ties are broken by systemId, a random number handed out when a node is created. Every time a new node takes over as master, the entire system is must be “aligned”, which is expensive. So it is best to assign the highest Master Priority to one of nodes that will be created early. Valid values are 0-256. 0 is used for Scripts, because they should never be master. 256 means “use the legacy method for choosing the master”. A default value is used if this environment variable is not specified. That default is guaranteed to be >0 and <255. Unlike the others in this section, OSPL_MASTER_PRIORITY is specific to Vera Rubin Observatory. If supported (ts_sal 4.2 and later), it will be part of the OpenSplice configuration file pointed to OSPL_URI. Constant lsst.ts.salobj.MASTER_PRIORITY_ENV_VAR is available to make this easier to set from Python.
  • OSPL_URI (required) points to the main DDS configuration file. Example: file:///home/saluser/tsrepos/ts_opensplice/OpenSpliceDDS/v6.9/HDE/x86_64.linux/etc/config/ospl.xml

Used by Domain:

  • LSST_DDS_IP (optional) is used to set the host attribute. If defined, it must be a dotted numeric IP address, e.g. “192.168.0.1”. The Domain host attribute is set to the integer equivalent, or a positive random integer if the environment variable is not defined. The Domain host value is used to set the private_host field of messages, when writing them.

Used by SalInfo:

  • LSST_DDS_DOMAIN (required): the DDS partition name (not the DDS domain, despite the name). This is read by SalInfo so that different instances of SalInfo can communicate with different DDS partitions, even though all share the same Domain.
  • LSST_DDS_HISTORYSYNC (optional): time limit (sec) for waiting for historical (late-joiner) data.

Used by AsyncS3Bucket:

  • S3_ENDPOINT_URL: The endpoint URL for the S3 server, e.g. http://foo.bar:9000. You must specify a value in order to use a non-AWS S3 service, at least until endpoint_url can be defined in ~/.aws/config, at which point we plan to deprecate this environment variable. Leave it undefined or set it to “” to use AWS S3 (or the value in your aws config file, once that is supported).

Other Configuration

In addition to the environment variables described above, you will need the ts_idl package and, if you wish to build topic schemas, the ts_sal package.

The Vortex OpenSplice DDS quality of service is specified by the file qos/DDS_DefaultQoS_All.xml in ts_idl.

DDS topic schemas are defined by OMG IDL files, which are contained in the idl directory of the ts_idl package. You may generate new IDL files using the make_idl_files.py command-line script in the ts_sal package.