Background

The DEIMOS keyword history service (keygrabber) is running since November 1, 2016. The service runs in the machine vm-history-1. This service allows users to access past keyword values and also to monitor keyword values in real time.

Some useful commands

The service can be accessed by loging in vm-history-1 as user kics. The command gshow translates a basic query on the command line into the proper format to retrieve the data from a keyword history database. These are some examples of queries that can be performed using the command gshow:

Starting and stopping the service

Further reading

Full documentation on the keygrabber service can be found here.