pcontrol is a pvserver available as separate download. It provides an event log system and a means to start processes in background and to control them. Using pcontrol you can comfortably print event log messages from any of your processes in the network to a central instance. The operators can browser the event logs from within pvbrowser. Also you may start all other processes your automation is consisting of from pcontrol. This may be your pvservers, daemons for fieldbus access, soft PLC's or whatever.