watch

Name

watch -- Watch variables (slow controls)

Synopsis

watch name

DESCRIPTION

Informs the slow controls server that a variable or array named name should be monitored. The watched variable are monitored for changes (which are initiated by clients performing set commands). Periodically the current values of changed variables are dumped to the event stream as string items of type MONITORED_VARIABLES.

If name is an array, all elements of that array are monitored.