CAPS documentation

This is the documentation for the Common Acquisition Protocol Server (CAPS) package in version 2026.117#50d9aa527.

CAPS receives data in many formats from external sources for storage and distribution.

CAPS provides redundancy and flexible access to data sources or different kinds.

The CAPS web interface shows server metrics and data availability.

The CAPS web interface shows waveforms.

Note

This version of CAPS introduces a different data file storage format eventually increasing the performance of CAPS. The change affects all version after 2021.048.

While this change should be transparent to the user, initially it can cause temporary performance impacts. Please read Upgrading.

About

• Introduction
  • Features
  • Architecture
  • Deployment
• Upgrading
  • New file format
  • Rationale
  • Manual archive conversion
• Glossary
  • SeisComP terms
  • Scientific and technical terms
• References

Data Server, Acquisition, Retrieval

• CAPS Server Application
  • Data Management
  • Execution and Automatic Startup
  • File System Tuning
  • Security and Access Control
  • Module Configuration
  • Command-Line Options
  • Server Interfaces
  • Server and File Testing
  • Data Redundancy
• Data Acquisition and Manipulation by Plugins
  • CAPS plugins
  • Integration of Seedlink plugins
  • Configuration of CAPS plugins
• Access Data on a CAPS Server
  • RecordStream: caps/capss
  • CAPS command-line interface (CLI) client: capstool
  • Data file access: rifftool/capssds
  • Synchronize with another CAPS server: caps2caps
  • Connect from SeedLink: caps_plugin
  • Web interface
  • Built-in FDSNWS
  • Built-in WebDAV
  • Built-in Winston waveform server
  • Data availability information
• Examples and Recipes
  • Retrieve real-time data from a CAPS server
  • Import data into a CAPS server
  • Real-time playbacks

Software History

• CAPS server

Plugins

• rs2caps
• caps2caps
• slink2caps
• sproc2caps
• Python