Reports until 18:56, Monday 05 October 2015
H1 INJ (INJ)
peter.shawhan@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:56, Monday 05 October 2015 (22250)
Stopped hardware injections from getting labeled with H1OPS
Since the current set of hardware injections is testing the injections themselves, not the human response to event candidates, I have changed the Approval Processor configuration to no longer treat hardware injections like real GW event candidates.  That means that they will not get the H1OPS and L1OPS labels, and operators will not be presented with a sign-off box for them.  However, with the CURRENT version of the external alert code (ext_alert.py), audible alerts will still sound in the control rooms.  I am trying to arrange that during tomorrow's maintenance period we will update the ext_alert.py scripts so that the audible alerts sound only for triggers that operators are asked to sign-off on.

After that change is made (hopefully tomorrow), please take any audible alert seriously as a genuine external-trigger alert or low-latency GW trigger alert.  Exception: we are planning to set up weekly tests of the alert system that will happen during Tuesday maintenance periods; details to come later.