Chipmunk logging is currently done by the ChipmunkMonitor application. There is probably no immediate need to include chipmunk logging in the new logging system. There are approximately 150 chipmunks located in experimental areas. In addition to logging the chipmunks,the ChipmunkMonitor application also logs beam loss monitors and transformers. These measurements are less critical than the chipmunk measurements, however.
Chipmunks are counters so their values continue to increase with time.
Chipmunk values are logged every five minutes. However, data is colleced at one-minute intervals for the purpose of generating alarms. For the AGS, two consecutive 5-minute readings are averaged and the result is logged. For RHIC, averaging is done differently. Data is collected every minute and all five of these data samples are averaged to create the logged 5-minute value.