http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/ 2026-05-06T13:35:15+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/ http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2016-04-04T05:52:54+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:ds_redbutton.pl&rev=1459749174&do=diff ds_redbutton.pl ds_redbutton.pl is a script written in perl with the Tk GUI extension to allow a local user to join or leave a dynamic observing session at any time. In order to work, this script requires that the perl Tk extension is installed. First try running the script. If you get an error message about perl not finding the Tk extension, you can install it in at least two different ways: text/html 2016-04-04T06:02:23+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:dynamicsnap.sh&rev=1459749743&do=diff DynamicSnap.sh This script is called by dysched.pl whenever a new piece of schedule is downloaded from the server. It runs Drudg on it and then appends the resulting SNP file to the current schedule. No editing should be required. text/html 2016-04-08T06:29:30+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:dysched&rev=1460096970&do=diff dysched.pl dysched.pl is a script that run on a continuous 1-minute cycle. It uses mondump to send status information to the schedule server, retrieves a new schedule if available and will append it to the dynamic observing schedule that's currently running. If the observatory has chosen not to participate in an observation, text/html 2016-04-11T00:27:06+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:mondump&rev=1460334426&do=diff mondump mondump is a program based on the PCFS monit2 software that retrieves monitoring information and sends it to a central server. The information is used by scheduling software to decide how to use the telescope. mondump can be run from the command line or via a PCFS procedure (e.g. text/html 2016-04-04T06:09:09+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:override&rev=1459750149&do=diff override.txt This is a simple text file that is updated by ds_redbutton.pl whenever the user changes the station availability. If the value of override is true then the antenna is considered to be unavailable and the scheduling software will exclude it. dysched.pl also reads this file and will not download a schedule from the server if text/html 2016-11-11T23:24:36+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:running&rev=1478906676&do=diff Running the Dynamic Observing Software The description below assumes that the experiment is called ds001 and that it's running on the Katherine 12m (station ID Katherine). It is also assumed that the Dynamic Observing Scripts are installed in /home/oper/bin/dysched It's recommended that this software is run from a VNC session but it can also be run on the desktop. For the example given here, a VNC session is shown. text/html 2016-11-13T21:45:26+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:running_utas&rev=1479073526&do=diff Dynamic Observing notes for UTAS observers * Check that you have modules loaded for each site. Assume 5 TB per day. * In each of the PCFS VNC sessions you should see a GUI that looks like this: If you don’t see it, you can start it by typing ~/bin/dysched/ds_redbutton.pl at a prompt. Press [Enable] and click [Apply] text/html 2016-11-30T23:52:12+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:schedproc&rev=1480549932&do=diff Schedule and Procedure files * The DynamicSnap.sh script operates by drudging a short-duration skd files and appending the snap commands to the end of the currently active schedule. To work, the active schedule needs to be prepared to reload itself, starting at a line number which corresponds to the beginning of the new data. On starting the dysched.pl script, a default ds.snp file is copied across to /usr2/sched/$sched$station.snp to serve as the template. This script includes some basic com… text/html 2018-09-25T00:49:37+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:scheduler&rev=1537836577&do=diff Scheduler The scheduler runs on lummox. To check the progress, you can vnc into this machine (usual password). vncviewer lummox The scheduler is running in Matlab. In the command window you can follow the progress. This is either a scheduling (every 15 min) or a new line text/html 2016-12-01T22:23:15+00:00 http://auscope0.phys.utas.edu.au/opswiki/doku.php?id=development:dynamicobserving:scripts&rev=1480630995&do=diff Dynamic Observing Scripts The following scripts and files are required to make dynamic observing work. They are available for download here (updated 02/12/2016): * By default, the scripts should be downloaded from the oper account on your PCFS and unpacked in the home directory: