Reports until 16:14, Tuesday 18 October 2016
H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:14, Tuesday 18 October 2016 - last comment - 08:20, Wednesday 19 October 2016(30637)
CDS maintenance summary, Tuesday 18th October 2016

WP6251 RCG3.2 upgrade

Jonathan, Jim, Dave:

The main work today was in upgrading the front end models and the DAQ systems to RCG3.2. All models were recompiled yesterday evening (see alog 30609). This morning we installed this new code (took 1hr 27mins). New mx code was compiled, new daqd binaries were created for all DAQ systems. The install sequence was:

WP6258 DAQ removal of science frame

Jonathan, Greg, Jim, Dave:

All frame writers were configured to no longer write science frames, and rename the old commissioning frames as the new raw frame.

Detailed procedure given in wiki page https://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/wiki/MakingTheCommissioningFrameTheNewFullFrame

After this change, there are no C-named frames, only R-named frames. Archived C-Frames are now R-Frames, new frames are what were previously called commissioning frames with R-names in the frames/full directories. What were called science frames are not written, no new frames in frames/science directories.

h1nds0 and h1nds1 were reconfigured to the new R-names and restarted

the wiper scripts on h1ldasgw0 and h1ldasgw1 were changed to not use science frames, and to give the disk these frames used to the full frames instead

WP6237 Remove h1ldasgw2

Jim, Dave

a third QFS/NFS server was install in the MSR during the summer as part of the attempt to fix h1fw0/h1fw1 instability. It offloaded the exporting of the frame directories (in read-only mode) to the NDS servers. It later proved to be a liability when corrupted frame files were served by h1ldasgw2 to both NDS servers.

Today we decommissioned h1ldasgw2 and reconfigured h1ldasgw0, h1ldasgw1 to serve their respective file systems as a read-only export to the NDS machines. h1nds0 and h1nds1 were configured to no longer use h1ldasgw2.

Comments related to this report
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - 08:20, Wednesday 19 October 2016 (30653)
A new version of dataviewer was also installed for Ubuntu12 and Ubuntu14 control room workstations.  This version, 3.2, will handle the leap second to be applied Dec. 31, 2016.  Dataviewer is part of the advLigoRTS source code.