Re: Local monitor

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From: Frank Geurts (geurts_at_rice.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 23:14:30 EST


hi Nu, i am looking at the localmonitor myself but something is F*** up.
    It appears that the localmonitor is not getting updated anymore.
Also, I can tell from the local online QA plots (those next to the RTS
screen) that something bad happened to the TOF because they hardly seem
to fill too. Finally, I see many,many time-outs pass by in the STAR DAQ log.

Something is not good ... I can only see that all our systems *should*
be online but this is pointing more and more to some (local) trigger
issue. Since last Wednesday's access typically two things happened:
* I recompiled on Jeff L.'s request the tofpdaq code (for something that
shouldn't even affect TOF at all)
* Zhangbu did some measurements at the TOF rack and installed one or two
things on Wed- and Friday.

If a reboot of TOFpDAQ's code does not work than an access will be our
only chance to debug this problem further.

<<< FORGET ABOUT THIS PART BELOW ... we just talked on the phone and I
already did it :) >>>>

If you can get a chance between runs, could you please do the following:
go to the TOF terminal, open a window and ssh to tofpdaq:

ssh tofp_at_tofpdaq.starp.bnl.gov
(passwd=t4flight)

then enter this:
   tofpdaq restart

it will respond with
  Are you sure you want to restart tofpdaq program: (Y)es/(N)o? [N]

answer Y

wait ~10s and type in
   tofpdaq status

amongst many things you should now see these processes run:
   tofpMother, monDisplay, runcontrol, getdata, senddata and localmon

after this you can log out again.

-frank


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