Shifter Instructions » History » Version 15
Martin Frank, 01/10/2014 03:05 PM
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3 | 1 | Martin Frank | h1. NDOS Shifter Instructions |
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5 | 1 | Martin Frank | h2. Starting the Trigger |
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7 | 13 | Martin Frank | *The following steps show how to start the trigger processes on the buffer nodes. As long as the buffer nodes are up, you can execute these instructions, but it is usually done after the run is started.* |
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9 | 15 | Martin Frank | *1. The DDTManager should be in the list of managers of the DAQApplicationManager:* |
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11 | 15 | Martin Frank | !ddt_daqapplicationmanger.png! |
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13 | 9 | Martin Frank | *2. The following manager screen should pop up (you might have to scroll around the display to find it):* |
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15 | 1 | Martin Frank | !ddt_all_stopped.png! |
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17 | 5 | Martin Frank | *3. Click the "Start Group" button to start all of the processes and when they are all running it should look like this:* |
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19 | 1 | Martin Frank | !ddt_all_running.png! |
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21 | 14 | Martin Frank | *Note that the data-driven triggers record shorter time windows, so you will see very clean events in the Event Display.* |
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23 | 1 | Martin Frank | h2. Stopping the Trigger |
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25 | 6 | Martin Frank | *1. Click the "Stop Group" button and wait until everything is pink (not running).* |
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27 | 6 | Martin Frank | *2. Click on File -> Exit to exit the manager:* |
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29 | 6 | Martin Frank | !ddt_exit.png! |
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31 | 2 | Martin Frank | h2. Recovering a Trigger |
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33 | 7 | Martin Frank | *Occasionally a trigger process might die, so you can recover it as follows:* |
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35 | 7 | Martin Frank | *1. Send an email to novaddt@fnal.gov telling us which trigger process died. For example, trigger process 002 died here:* |
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37 | 7 | Martin Frank | !ddt_002_stopped.png! |
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39 | 8 | Martin Frank | *2. Right-click on the dead process and click "Start Process":* |
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41 | 8 | Martin Frank | !ddt_002_restart.png! |
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43 | 8 | Martin Frank | *3. Everything should be green again.* |
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45 | 10 | Martin Frank | *4. If the process dies more than twice in an hour, do not restart it again, but notify us via email.* |