Shifter Instructions » History » Version 26
Martin Frank, 01/16/2014 05:06 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 | 23 | Martin Frank | *The following instructions show how to start the trigger after you have started a run.* |
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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 | 16 | Martin Frank | !ddt_daqapplicationmanager.png! |
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13 | 24 | Martin Frank | *2. You should see the DDT Manager with several buttons in pink (check the whole desktop, this window sometimes hides out of view):* |
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15 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_allstopped.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 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_allrunning.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 | 26 | Martin Frank | *Make sure that you stop all of the processes before you end a run or after a run crashed!* |
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27 | 25 | Martin Frank | *1. Click the "Stop Group" button and wait until everything is pink (not running).* |
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29 | 22 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_allstopped.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 | 21 | Martin Frank | *1. The overview will indicate this with a bit of pink in the Group button (Group 05 here), so double-click it to see more details:* |
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37 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_onestopped_overview.png! |
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39 | 21 | Martin Frank | *2. Send an email to novaddt@fnal.gov telling us which trigger process died. For example, trigger process DDT-6-4 died here:* |
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41 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_onestopped.png! |
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43 | 21 | Martin Frank | *3. Right-click on the dead process and click "Start Process":* |
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45 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_restart.png! |
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47 | 21 | Martin Frank | *4. Everything should be green again. You can return to the Overview by clicking on the orange "Back" button.* |
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49 | 21 | Martin Frank | !ddtmanager_allrunningagain.png! |
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51 | 21 | Martin Frank | *5. If the process dies more than twice in an hour, do not restart it again, but notify us via email.* |