[evla-sw-discuss] fallout from EVLA power outage

[Bryan Butler]

the API software is not robust to the API going down (or not being 
present at all).  so when the UPS ran out and the signal generator for 
the device went south, the software followed along.  not fatal, since 
the device itself is sad, but not very satisfying.

i'm going to try to work on fixing this up this week, at the very least 
to allow for the case where mchost boots before the API is sending data.

	-bryan


Ken Sowinski wrote, On 7/26/10 08:44:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, James Robnett wrote:
> 
>>  We need to enumerate the things that aren't working (if any) and fix
>> them.  At the very least we need to make sure people who need to know
>> actually know ...
> 
> Here is the (short)  list of the problems I found once the antennas
> and correlator were in good shape and we tried to get it all to work.
> 
> 1.  Configuration Mapper was started at mccc boot time, but
>      was not initiallized with a station list.  I tried, but
>      could not find an appropriate initialization file to send
>      by hand.  Eventually I was able to kill and restart CM
>      using a command line that pointed to the right file.
> 
> 2.  Telcal does not start automatically when the machine it
>      runs on is booted.
> 
> 3.  Mcaf was running.  I don't know if that was because
>      it came up properly or Rich had intervened earlier.
> 
> 4.  The CBE had no problems.  I know that James and Martin
>      both worked earlier in the day to make it usable.
> 
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