Adaptive Secondary Mirror FAQ

Cabinet Related

• Is possible to directly read the temperature of the control cabinet?

No. There is an indirect measure using the power temperature on-board sensor of the SwitchBcu, read by the Housekeeper and displayed in the Housekeeper GUI. The cabinet provides an automatic shutdown switch if the temperature of the air inside goes too high (about 50 C degrees, TBC by Microgate). Current set point is 40C, set by LBTO.

• Is possible to directly read the flux rate of the control cabinet?

No. There is only one flux meter and it is in the adaptive secondary unit itself

Hexapod Related

• Can the Hexapod Controller (the UMAC) be power cycled remotely?

Yes. The instructions are here:

Hexapod Power

Unit Related

• How to test if the BCUs and the MOXA are up?

Open a terminal in AOeng@adsecdx(sx) and execute the ping command on the following hosts: adamdx, mbc0dx, mbcu1dx, mbcu2dx, mbcu3dx, mbcu4dx, mbcu5dx, swbcudx.

Software Related

• How can I start/check/stop the AOSupervisor software?

On the AOeng@adsec(sx/dx) workstation, run from the command line the scripts: adsc_start for start the processes, adsc_check for checking the processes status, adsc_stop for stop all the processes.

• How can I start the GUIs?

On the AOeng@adsec(sx/dx) workstation, run from the command line the scripts: adsceng. After that select the GUI you want.

• How can I stop/start the AdSec Digest emails

On the AOeng@adsec(sx/dx) workstation, execute the command:

  $ crontab -e

Add/remove # in front of the line with make_digest using insert mode (press i when the cursor is in the correct place)

#0 14 * * * /home/aoacct/scripts/mirrorLog.sh
#2 12 * * * /home/aoacct/scripts/mirrorMeas.sh
#00 16 * * 0,2,4,6 /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -z -c -r /home/aoacct/localMirrorLog
#00 16 * * 1,3,5 /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -c -r /home/aoacct/localMirrorData
#00 15 * * 2,6 /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -c localMirrorCalib
00 16 * * 3,0 /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -c  -S remoteMirrorCalib
30 16 * * * /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -c  -S /home/aoacct/remoteMirrorLog
30 16 * * * /home/aoacct/bin/archiver.py -c  -S /home/aoacct/remoteMirrorData
#0 15 * * * /home/aoacct/scripts/make_digest > /tmp/make_digest.log 2>&1
0 15 1 * * /home/aoacct/scripts/makestat > /tmp/make_stat.log 2>&1
0 15 15 * * /home/aoacct/scripts/makestat > /tmp/make_stat.log 2>&1
3 8 * * * /home/aoacct/scripts/disk-alarm.py > disk-alarm.log 2>&1
* * * * *  /usr/local/itt/idl/bin/lmstat -f idl >> /local/aolog/lmstat/idl_license.txt

Once the edit is complete, esc to exit insert mode and then type :wq to save and exit the crontab edit. The message

crontab: installing new crontab

will tell you that the changes have been accepted. (DLM 7/29/14)

Other

-- MarcoXompero - 08 Feb 2013