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SW&IT Meeting Minutes 2023-02-06

Attendees: Brandon, David, Glenn, Matthieu, Paul, Stephen, Xianyu, Yang

Outlook

• Weekly schedules [Telescope/Schedule/Support]
• Team calendar
• IssueTrak summary
• open PR
• open issues

Labor Reporting

Report auto-generated every Monday at 6:30am, Do not edit this table, Update your entries in smartsheets.

20230123

LR20230123 - Bec, Matthieu	80.0
LR20230123 - Mechtley, Brandon	80.0
LR20230123 - Eychaner, Glenn	80.0
LR20230123 - Edmeades, David	80.0
LR20230123 - Grenz, Paul	36.0
LR20230123 - Hooper, Stephen	0.0
LR20230123 - Zhang, Yang	80.0
LR20230123 - Zhang, Xianyu	104.0

News from management

Previous Action Items

Owner	Action	Due Date	Completion Date

Open topics

• Maybe IT should have a way to run a single command on every registered (Linux) computer and VM, for checking things
• Secure System Administration and Developer Certification" enrollment available.

Team reports

MB

• Last week
  • OC, Management, AOPM, AO.SYS.SW
  • tcs-simulator full debug with vs-code front-end. check gdb 'rr', python plugins etc.
  • tcs wlsp rpm fix
  • filter-out ack events from ahs-slack
• This week
  • tcs-simulator, IT7830
  • telemetry timestamps, IT8671
  • ao.sys IssueTrak and github issues update
  • web-iif framework

XZ

• Last week
  • DX ASM/AO supprt, data analysis
  • ASM SW patch release
  • ASM system and upgrade document
  • DX ASM taken down preparation
• This week
  • ASM system and upgrade document
  • ASM/AO support
  • DX ASM issue analysis

YZ

• Previous:
  • TCS updated (OSS/PCS/MCS config/event.dat/ARGOS light proxy).
  • Additional tests for IT8747 (MODS GUI problems) with Olga. It appears to be working fine after deleting some dot files on inaf@obs1.
  • Tweaked some MODS alert services configuration.
  • Worked on archive/LBC/MODS/TMS utilities.
• Next:
  • Additional TCS updates?
  • Continue to work on archive/LBC/MODS/TMS utilities.

DE

• Last week:
  • Office trip
    • ARGOS laptops, nothing from JCG about plan.
    • LUCI-new is unhappy, something to do with the RAID controller. I have troubleshooting to do tomorrow.
    • My workstation scratch drive is probably dead, lost some images....
  • Nothing so far from JCG re: PMAC laptop for me to reimage it
  • Volume6 on mountain getting awfully full; I couldn't find any obviously badly stored data
  • Alessandro looking for ex-JW laptop PW; I was leaving this for MarkS given previous interactions, especially since I don't have the JW user account PW.
  • Offered to help MarkS with Vault; my records indicate that I did this for him 2 years ago but who knows what's going on. Nothing back from him on this.
  • tcs-testvirtualization ready to test
• This week:
  • More office for luci-new
  • Veeam maintenance renewal?
  • I put the drive from my workstation in the freezer; we'll see if the old magic still has power
  • Hopefully some feedback from JCG and MarkS

GCE

• Last Week
  • Nearly completed scripts for installation of the LUCI and GEIRS software on luci-new.
    • Unfortunately, luci-new has had a major hardware issue.
• This Week
  • Finish testing the LUCI and GEIRS software install scripts for luci-new.
  • Possible work on AO TCS changes (phase 2.1 and 2.2).
  • Further improvements to the LUCI AHS emailer, including an interface in the LUCI LMC to use caput() to turn off and on the various sensors.
  • Look into how best to keep luci.luci and lucix.luci databases synchronized. This is a challenge.
  • Observer GUI:
    • Jenny Power reported an issue with the observer GUI failing to update which needs investigation.
    • Pauses of active items don’t propagate into the Scheduler and have been disabled for now.
    • “More Details” and “Edit Item” menus were never finished and do not work, and have been disabled for now.

BM

• Last week
  • NCPA
  • AO SW checkout, new release procedure (for now, will merge patches and coordinate w/aog to rename checkout to stable)
• This week
  • test plan for rerotator presetao interruptions (IT 8762)
  • vm test lbti ncpa, daytime test plan
  • make a document for separating ao-supervisor wfs/asm/lib
  • misc. bugs (daytime conf AOS message, ccd viewer overlay msg, wfsarb memory leak) -- will inventory adsec vs wfs issues for AOSW

PSG

• Last week
  • AZCAM testing.
  • SHARK-NIR/LBTI preset - not updating OBJNAME header info properly.
  • White light source testing - proxy works fine, OSS not updated yet.
  • Vacation day Friday
• This week
  • IT8769 - PEPSI preset fails due to unresponsive AzCam: related to AZCAM work.
  • Rework GCS refmem
  • Add features to PMC throttling.
  • Continue fixing LBTI preset.