file: /users/bsahr/EVLA/Modcomp_retirement/tools_deployment.txt date: 28Jun2007 author: Bill Sahr subject: EVLA M&C Tools & Utilities, Deployment The Operator's Software ----------------------- This item gives access to the basic Operator Screen and, via the "Screens" drop down menu, to a large number of other screens including, but not limited to: - the Device Browser - the Antenna Screen, which, in turn, gives access to all of the EVLA module screens, the AOI Display screens, and the AOI Summary screens - the Critical Functions screens - the Antenna Initialization screen - the Telcal screens & others. Please explore. While one does not have to start with the Operator Screen, it is a good point of departure. This software is loaded by pointing a web browser at the URL: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg-internal/jnlp/ & selecting the release of your choice. Unless you have a special reason not to do so, the usual best choice is to select the latest release. Your web browser must be configured to handle jnlp pages. If it is not and you do not know how to so configure it, contact Rich Moeser, or, if he is away (and he is away from 7/2-7/13), then contact me, Bill Sahr. Alerts (Checker Replacement) ---------------------------- Web-based. The URL for the deployed version is: http://mcmonitor.evla.nrao.edu/evla-alerts/ Be aware that there are three tabs at the top of the page - "active", "search", and "loader". Active is used to get a copy of the currently active alerts. Search is used to search for alerts - either currently active or historical. Please be aware that there are two (2) search modes - simple and active. Loader is used to examine the state of the program that loads alerts into the underlying database. The loader page is currently unavailable, but will be fixed. The loader page is of minimal use or interest to most users. Prate Replacement ----------------- Web-based. The URL for the deployed version is: http://mcmonitor.evla.nrao.edu/evla-prate/ Please note that it make take a few 10s of seconds for the page to load. It makes a request for current data every time you either first load or reload the page. Monitor Data Archive(s) ----------------------- One could say that, at the moment, we are blessed with a multitude of monitor data archives - the old, the new, and a test archive. For a while, the picture will be a bit confusing. First, the basic facts. Each monitor data archive can be viewed as having three components - the underlying database, a loader program that puts data into the database (and a user interface to the loader), and a query interface that is used to get data out of the database. The query interface is component that is seen by users. The loader (or, more accurately, the loader interface) also has useful information, but the component of real interest to the users is the query interface. The new monitor data archive ---------------------------- It exists and is loading data as of Thursday, 6/28/2007, 11:32 AM. We had hoped to move about the last 30 days worth of historical monitor data into this new archive, but technical issues prevented the loading of the historical data. This monitor data archive is the archive to use if you want EVLA or VLA monitor data dating from Thur, 6/28/2007, 11:32AM onwards. The query interface for the new monitor data archive is located at: http://mcmonitor:8080/monartool-gui-1.0/main.faces We are trying to add a much requested feature, the sorting of modules and monitor points, to the new query interface so it may not be available until sometime Monday, 7/2/2007. If you try this interface and it does not work, then please try the query interface to the test monitor database. Both the new and the test databases will contain the same data. The interface to the loader for the new monitor data archive can be found at: http://mcmonitor.evla.nrao.edu/evla-archive/ And, finally, the new monitor data archive itself, i.e., the underlying database, exists as two tables within the old monitor database. The new monitor database tables are referred to as mcdata in evlamon and alertdata in evlamon. Users will never deal directly with the underlying database. The test monitor data archive ----------------------------- The query interface can be found at: http://mctest:8080/monartool-gui-1.0/main.faces The interface for the loader to the test monitor data archive can be found at: http://mctest.evla.nrao.edu:8080/evla-archive-mcdata/ The underlying database is known as montest2. It consists of two tables - mcdata in montest2 and alertdata in montest2. The test archive contains monitor data going back about 60 days. The old monitor data archive ---------------------------- The query interface can be found at: http://archive.nrao.edu/monarchive/evlamonitor.html The interface to the loader is located at: http://mctest.evla.nrao.edu:8080/evla-archive-mptsdata/ The underlying database is known as evlamon. The monitor data is stored in a table known as mptsdata in evlamon. To answer the unspoken question - yes, we are filling 3 monitor data archives simultaneously. In the near, but as yet unspecified future, we will stop filling the old monitor data archive.