Investigation of LabVIEW and Syslog Interface using In-house Developed Generic Logging Software

Status logging using standards such as Syslog is widely recommended and used across various industry verticals. LabVIEW is a widely used data acquisition and control platform for scientific experiments. The integration of LabVIEW and Syslog technologies for status, error and event logging is a topic of considerable interest. This paper discusses the investigation of interface and development of a generic logger software in LabVIEW which provides facility to record messages formatted in RFC 3164 format into a syslog server and benchmark the performance of data transfer. Motivation of this work is driven by machine control system mandate of the large volume plasma device but on larger domain, this can be used in applications concerned to the log management for scientific experiments. The paper discusses motivation, literature survey, software development artifacts and benchmarking results.