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jameson.rollins@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:03, Thursday 30 October 2014 (14738)
minor bug fixes pushed out for guardian and cdsutils, new guardian node log viewer

After the recent upgrades, a couple of small bugs were identified in guardian and cdsutils, and new versions were pushed out:

The new version have been pushed, and some of the guardian nodes have been restarted, but not all.  We should restart all nodes at the next opportunity.

New log viewer

I pushed out a new guardian node log viewing interface, so that you no longer need to ever type in a password when viewing logs.  This new interface can be used by using the new guardlog program that is now installed everywhere.  Just provide as arguments to the program the names of the nodes whose logs you would like to view, e.g.:

guardlog SEI_ITMY HPI_ITMY ISI_ITMY_ST1 ISI_ITMY_ST2

The logs of all specified nodes will be tailed, interleved as they are spit out, to the current terminal.  The GUARD medm control interfaces now use this log viewer as well.

tl;dr: A very lightweight "guardlog" server is now running on the guardian machine (h1guardian0), listening on port 5555.  Making a simple TCP connection to that port (with the guardlog client) will open up the interface and spit out the logs for the specified nodes.