patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:45, Thursday 07 July 2016 - last comment - 07:54, Thursday 07 July 2016(28214)
Leaving in COIL_DRIVERS at ~39.5 W
This is as far as I have been able to get the IFO tonight. I tried to set the intent bit, but it will not engage. I have set the Ops Observatory Mode to Observing.
The 'Observing' button (intent) will only engage if the interferometer is 'ready' (bit 2 of ODC-MASTER). In practice this means you can only press the button when the IFO node (top-node) is in full OK mode (current state == request == nominal). I think this requires all other guardian nodes to be nominal, no SDF changes, etc, etc.
This can be disabled (so you can press the button anyway) by setting H1:ODC-AUTO_UNSET_OBS_INTENT to 0, but downstream users (data analysis/detchar) won't be notified anyway because they look at the 'ready' bit as well to see when to analyse.