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thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:52, Monday 15 July 2024 (79136)
Added manual_control parameter to lscparams to avoid some automation states when True

Sheila, TJ

In times of heavy commissioning or troubleshooting, we want full control of the IFO and don't want to fight the automation. Sheila suggested that we add a manual_control boolean to lscparams.py that ISC_LOCK will look at to decide whether it will automatically run states like Check_Mich_Fringes, PRMI, Increase_Flashes, etc. When this is set to True, it will avoid these automated state either through a conditional in a state's logic, or by weighting edges to force ISC_LOCK to avoid particular states.

For now we are setting manual_control = True while we troubleshoot the IFO.  We will need to remember to return it when we want fully automatic operation again.