ASTO control User Guide
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1. This area shows the media waiting to be written or already written For each volume we have the following information e Media ID number Id e Media Name media_name e Segregation Type SEG 8 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 e Number of copies to be written Copies e Status of the media Status e Action currently performed on the volume 2 2 Operations Before executing astoControl the operator must be sure to have set the environment properly Please refer to the Data Flow System installation document for the proper setting of astoControl To launch the tool type from the command line astoControl debug 1 2 log lt filename gt Where debug 1 3 enables the debug mode The numbers define the level of verbosity Messages are sent to the standard output log lt filename gt redirect the debug messages to a log file This option is used together with the debug option At the first glance the user can see two listboxes and several buttons see figure above The listboxes show the status of queues and media volumes The upper listbox shows the status of the data queues The tool automatically recognizes which queue directory contains data and searches for informa tion in the database If a queue is not in use it is not visualized The lower listbox shows the status of the media volumes CD ROMs DVDs tapes The media names volume name are visualized and their status tells us if the volume has b2. EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY Organisation Europ enne pour des Recherches Astronomiques dans l H misph re Austral Europ ische Organisation fiir astronomische Forschung in der s dlichen Hemisphare VERY LARGE TELESCOPE J ASTO Control User Guide Doc No VLT MAN ESO 19300 2363 Issue 1 0 Date 16 8 01 Fabio Sogni PROD EE Name Approved soos eter Ge Bate Deen Eege Name Peter Quinn Released uu Q EE EEN VLT PROGRAMME TELEPHONE 49 89 32006 0 FAX 49 89 320 2362 2 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 Change Record Issue Revision Section Page affected Reason Remarks October 30 2000 First release ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 1 Purpose and Scope 1 2 Reference Documents 1 3 Abbreviations And Acronyms The astoControl panel 2 1 Panel Layout 2 2 Operations 2 3 Setup dataSubscriberAsto USER S GUIDE 3 1 Panel Layout 3 2 Operations astoControl in automatic mode Romanic 4 1 Forewords 4 2 Operations a oo vi VD CONN 11 11 12 15 15 15 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 5 1 Introduction 1 1 Purpose and Scope The purpose of the astoControl tool is to simplify the management and production of media The tool is based on the ASTO software developed by CADC with release 1 0 The astoControl tool combines all ASTO operations like connecting to the database retrieval of files usage o
3. also the indication of the type of files we a retrieving and the host from which we are retrieving them in this case we re retrieving FITS files from the host olasg The blue bar is an indication of the progress If you didn t specify a To date from astoControl the status bar won t be active greyed out Below the bar we have the indication of the period we are considering from the first to the 10th of october 1997 These are the buttons used to control dataSubscriber asto stop show Log start Ft u 3 2 Operations When the panel comes up it automatically checks whether a dhs subscriber is running In case it is already running the icon will turn green and the numbers of files queued processed and the icon bar will be updated NOTE it is not possible to run more than one process for the same type of file from the same host If dhsSubscriber is not running the Config button will be active while the Start and Stop button will be disabled ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 13 Clicking on the Config button a window will come up ege Raguet Dala Prom L 10 Ta 138 17 10 Here we decide which period we want to retrieve An automatic check is performed on the dates After selecting the period the Start ADS button will highlight Clicking it we will start a dhs sub scribe process The start up procedure selects the latest log file and discard the old errors
4. If a new error is logged the icon turns red this is just to warn the operator that an error occurred Check the log using the Show Log button then click on the icon it will turn green again Before starting a new dhsSubscriber process dataSubscriberAsto verifies that the repository of data DHS_DATA is empty if not it executes post command on each file found under the repository The Stop button when pushed stops all the dhs subscriber processes by executing the appropri ate script Like in the start up procedure the stop procedure verifies that DHS_DATA is empty if not a win dow pops up asking if we want to process the data now It is warmly recommended to process the data During normal operations the existence of dhsSubscribe processes is constantly checked If dhsSubscribe dies but its watchdog is alive the icon turns red and the GUI waits for the watch dog to revive the process If after 300 seconds the process is not alive the icon turns grey and every thing is stopped If the death of both the processes dhsSubscribe and watchdog is detected the GUI stops everything without waiting REMEMBER quitting dataSubscriberAsto doesn t kill dhsSubscriber the correct way to shutdown the subscriber is by using the Stop button By clicking on Show Log a window will come up showing the current log The log showed is the one with the current date and lying under DHS_LOG remember that the log name chan
5. User s Guide 1 0 9 Unqueue is an undo button it is used to put back a volume in the queue If you do this the vol ume name will disappear from the lower listbox and the percentage of the correspondent queue will increase in the top listbox Cleanup is used to remove the files wich have been successfully written on CD To use it select a media name with a status Written and push Cleanup 2 3 Setup Selecting the menubutton Options you will have the following choices astoIngest Volumes This is the final step of the CD DVD production After the CD DVD has been written and inserted in the juke box choose this option and the following window will pop up SSS Se SS Seo E Ingest CO Simus Quit Select the volume name and push Ingest Vol the volume name will be verified and the database updated The volume name will disappear from the list Push the Status button to refresh the listbox Push the Quit button to close the panel Manually Ingest Queue Each file received by astoControl is automatically ingested in the data base fileIngest Under normal conditions the field TBI To Be Ingested in the upper listbox is al ways 0 If the database is not available the files are stored on disk but there won t be an entry in the data base the field TBI will be greater than 0 When the DB will be available again to insert in the data base these fi
6. een queued written or verified Below the upper listbox there are three buttons Queue permits the creation of a media volume If you have enough data to fill up a media percent age gt 100 then using Queue astoControl will split a queue into media volumes each one of the size of the corresponding media type 650Mbytes for CDROMs 4 7Gbytes for DVDs etc Each queue is associated to a media type in the media table of the asto database After this operation the percentage of the selected queue will be 0 and you will see one or more en tries in the lower listbox To use this option first select the queue with the left button of the mouse then push Queue the se lected entry will turn green and will be green till the processing of the queue will be completed If you push Update now you will see the field Action showing Queueing Force Queue is used when you don t have enough data to fill up a disk but you want to create a vol ume anyway First select the queue with the left button of the mouse then push Force Queue Update is used to query the database and refresh the listboxes There also the possibility to automat ically updates the listboxes See section 2 3 Setup Below the lower listbox there are other three buttons MediaMake creates a physical volume in case of CDs and DVDs and writes the media Select the volume name with the left button of the mouse then push MediaMake ASTO Control
7. f the CD ROM writing software etc The tool also shows the status of the processes running giving the operator complete control of the media production flow From astoControl it is also possible to automatically subscribe to an OLAS server in order to retrieve the data to be ar chived This version of astoControl does not yet include command of the DPPacker tool which creates me dia packages for visiting and service programmes This functionality will be added in the next ver sion This User s Guide describes also the dataSubscriberAsto tool dataSubscriberAsto is a tool used to manage a dhs subscriber It s interface allows the operator to keep an eye on the transfer of files from a remote machine to the ASTO computer 1 2 Reference Documents The following documents are referenced in this document 1 Archive Storage Subsystem ASTO architectural design 2 ASTO User Manual 3 ASTO Command Interface Specifications 4 VLI MAN ESO 19300 2364 Romanic and printMedia User Guide 1 3 Abbreviations And Acronyms The following abbreviations and acronyms are used in this document ARCSYS Archive System ASM Astronomical Site Monitor ASTO Archive Storage Subsystem ccs VCS Central Control System DICB Data Interface Control Board DFS Data Flow System DHS Data Handling Server DMD Data Management Division FHT File Handling Tool FITS Flexible Image Transport System FWHM Full width at Half Maximum ASTO Cont
8. ges ev ery day 14 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 15 4 astoControl in automatic mode Romanic 4 1 Forewords It make sense to use the automatic mode of astoControl only if you have some device able to change media connected to your machine If you connect a Rimage Protege Robot to your machine you will make use of Romanic the server which pilots the robot The role of client is taken by astoControl astoControl generates romanic requests under a directory defined by ASTO_REQ_DIR For more information about Romanic and the format of the request files refer to 4 2 Operations As already mentioned to use the client part of Romanic the environment variable ASTO_REQ_ DIR must be defined and must point to an existing writable directory Under this directory astoControl creates request files one to each medium to treat and the request files will be ingested by the Romanic client A medium can be treated in three different ways e writeOnly the medium will be written but NOT printed e printOnly the medium will be printed but NOT written e writePrint the medium will be written and printed Default is writePrint if you want to change this functioning mode you have to create a file under your home directory HOME named writeControlConf and containing one of the 3 keywords listed above Before starting you must define properly your ASTO_CONFIG_DIR libAm config fi
9. ing window will pop up Fie Selection File Type FITS Hpzewmg arca Date Selacian From 20 02 08 Ta Baoi Ok el From this window it is possible to define which type of file we want to retrieve FITS LOG PAF OTH and from which host It is mandatory to specify a From date while the To date can be left empty If you leave the To date empty all the data from the date specified in From will be retrieved and the process will wait for new data to arrive Choosing OK dataSubscriberAsto will be called see next chapter for details ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 11 3 dataSubscriberAsto USER S GUIDE 3 1 Panel Layout When executed from astoControl dataSubscriberAsto will come up with the following window Dud Coig 4 Show Lag Prad 291 Sa ES FITS from oas e 191 EDEL to 17 20 10 Where Is an active icon it is grey when dhsSubscribe is not running becomes green when is running cor rectly and red when there is an error Gueued 94 Is the number of files stored under DHS_LOG these are files transferred from the remote host and waiting to be processed Processed 221 Is the number of files processed by the post arrival command of dataSubscriberAsto 12 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 FITS from olasg 1997 10 01 to 1997 10 10 is the percentage of files already retrieved Here we have
10. le and the da tabase The configuration file should contain a line like scripts RIMAGE cdPrepRunMkisofs mkisofs config writeControl none and the database must reflect this choice Refer to the asto documentation for further information 16 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 If either the database and the configuration file are set properly and if you put astoControl in auto matic mode a window will pop up one for each volume associated with RIMAGE fubmi beed requeee BAR CAR OOT2_ 13297733910 Witting Progress This is the graphical interface to Romanic Here you can follow the processing of a medium and it s progress while writing In case of errors like writing errors or robot errors magazines empty door open etc an error win dow will pop up asking to fix the problem In this case a new request file will be re submitted As soon as the process associated with the window wil complete the window will close itself auto matically Log file associated to each media are created under ASTO_REQ_DIR
11. les select the queue and choose this option the complete queue will be ingested and the missing files will be properly inserted in the database If the TBI is still not 0 check the log file 6DHS_LOG medialngest lt Id gt log maybe the file s has 10 ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 been already copied to a media It must be removed from the disk In this case the log file will tell you wich file must be removed Automatic Update Selecting this checkbutton the listboxes will be automatically updated every 30 seconds Automatic Queue Selecting this checkbutton the database will be checked every 30 seconds If there is a queue with a percentage of data greater than 100 a media volume will be automatically generated Automatic Write Selecting this checkbutton the database will be polled every 30 seconds If there is a media volume ready to be written the writing process will be invoked It is recomended to use this option only if you have a medium transporter Eg Kodak CD trans porter If you have a CD transporter and you trust your CD writer it is not possible to verify the CD thor oughly after writing you can enable both the options Automatic Queue and Automatic Write In this case the entire CD production will be executed automatically including the cleanup of the disk reaching a rate of 20 CDs in 10 hours using a writing speed of 6 Choosing the menu option Subscribe the follow
12. rol User s Guide 1 0 GUI HOS ICD ICS IDD IMP INS LAN LCU N A OLAC OLAF OLAS OS Oss PAF SW TBC TBD TCS vcs VOLAC ws Graphical User Interface Toolkit High Level Operating Software Interface Control Document Instrument Control Software Instrument Description Database Interprocess Message Passing Instrumentation Software Local Area Network Local Control Unit Not Applicable On Line Archive Client On Line Archive Facility On Line Archive Subsystem Observation Software Observation Support Software VLT Parameter File Software To be Confirmed To be Defined Telescope Control Software VLT Control Software VCS OLAC Client Workstation ASTO Control User s Guide 1 0 2 The astoControl panel 2 1 Panel Layout An overview of the astoControl panel is shown in the figure fle Options Subseribe Queues Td SEG Distk WB TELE Suede Action S i167 1167 aya D Media Volume Gueue Force Guma gt Copies State SC Et Media Volumes Control Buttons The astoControl panel is constituted by the following main components Upper Listbox This area shows the data queues currently active for each queue we have the following information e Media ID number Id e Segregation Type SEG e Number of MBytes currently under the queue Disk e Number of MBytes to be ingested TBI e Percentage of media ready to be queued e Action currently performed on the queue Lower Listbox
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