Reports until 00:02, Tuesday 08 August 2017
H1 General (CDS, SUS)
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:02, Tuesday 08 August 2017 - last comment - 01:03, Tuesday 08 August 2017(38059)
GraceDB query failure, ETMY RMS WD
The Ops overview MEDM screen is showing a red block that reads 'GraceDB query failure' (see attached). I found the following wiki page: https://cdswiki.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/wiki/ExternalAlertNotification and followed the instructions to log in to h1fescript0 and run 'ps aux | grep exttrig'. It reports the following:

root       787  0.0  0.0  77568  3636 ?        Ss   23:41   0:00 sshd: exttrig [priv]
exttrig    963  0.0  0.0  77568  1612 ?        S    23:41   0:00 sshd: exttrig@pts/5 
exttrig    964  0.9  0.0  26860  8112 pts/5    Ss   23:41   0:00 -bash
exttrig   1217  0.0  0.0  18148  1260 pts/5    R+   23:41   0:00 ps aux
exttrig   1218  0.0  0.0   9380   940 pts/5    R+   23:41   0:00 grep --color=auto exttrig
exttrig   2386  0.0  0.0  28320  1640 ?        S     2016 348:20 caRepeater
exttrig   5449  0.0  0.0  26992  1464 ?        Ss   Jun20   0:00 SCREEN
exttrig   5450  0.0  0.0  27416  8820 pts/8    Ss   Jun20   0:00 /bin/bash
exttrig   6107  0.0  0.0 129772  9276 pts/8    Sl+  Jun20  33:49 python ./viralert_epics_ioc.py

This does not match what the wiki page says should be shown, but the wiki page was last updated in 2015, so maybe it is just not up to date?

I suspect this is the reason that there was no verbal alert of the earlier GRB (https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=38051)?

As an aside, the screen that I brought up locally shows a red block near end Y that reads 'RMS WD'. This is not present on the one currently on the wall monitor. Looking at the ETMY suspension MEDM screen, to my eye I do not see anything out of place (see attached).
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 01:03, Tuesday 08 August 2017 (38062)
The wiki page does not give instructions for manually starting the code.