This was a good test of our new Picket Fence monitor EPICS channels. The PKT circle on the CDS Oveview is red, and the Picket Fence MEDM (attached) shows that the last update is many minutes ago (should never exceed 4 seconds).
I'm taking a look at the server and will restart it.
No need to restart the Picket Fence process, after almost exactly 20 minutes at 09:53 PDT the service sprung back to life and is updating normally now with nothing done at our end.
Good to know that the automatic restart is working! Also, very nice detailed interface, I'm a big fan.
It's a bit awkward that it took almost 20 minutes to come back again. I'd prefer it to be closer to 5 minutes, will check the code to see if there's anything amiss. There were no alerts/logs on the copy we're running at Stanford, so I assume this is not a problem from the USGS side.