I have written a python script to monitor the eight beam tube vacuum gauges and send emails to cell phones if a vacuum excursion is detected. It runs on sysadmin0 machine in the control room. It samples every 5 minutes, sending emails to John, Kyle, Richard, Ski and myself (both ligo-wa email and cell phone text messages).

code is in /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/cds/h1/scripts/ve_btvac_alarms_emailer.py

btvac = Beam Tube Vacuum.

This script performs the out-of-hours supplemental monitoring linked to the control room Alarm Handler and Wall Display striptools.