- 108: Base, Site base, Fri 04-Jan-2002 16:17:35 MST, Swapped Base Disk Drive
01/04/2002 16:10
Removed disk 'ISFF backup #2'
Installed disk 'ISFF backup #1'
Reboot of aster worked perfectly.
- 87: Base, Site base, Mon 10-Dec-2001 18:24:44 MST, aster rebooted several times
I just rebooted aster several times because I swapped /backup before remembering
to put $ASTER/projects/FLOSS on it (with all the photos that I promised to
various visitors today (The Star reporter and the Walden science teachers.)
I think everything is back to the way it should be now.
We're leaving this lovely place.
Bye bye...
- 84: Base, Site base, Mon 10-Dec-2001 11:01:16 MST, restarting serial_ingest
To effect a new sio_converter for the pam data on stn2 you only
needed to send a HUP signal to the stn2 ingest process:
------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host user pid start exectime process
aster aster 1216 Dec09 ? 00:00:12 stn2 4 /dev/usb/ttyUSB0
kill -HUP 1216
serial_ingest then restarts another ingest on that serial port
immediately.
- 67: GPS, Site base, Sat 08-Dec-2001 09:09:45 MST, gps died again
The GPS was dead this morning. I'm going to guess that the power supply doesn't
like the cold of the "knee-hole", since it was quite cold last night (-13 now).
I got it going, but will move the power supply out soon.
- 47: Status, Site base, Tue 04-Dec-2001 21:34:38 MST, second mouse trapped
After seeing it scurrying across the back of the trailer today, I moved the
trap tonight. It was filled 20 minutes later. 10 seconds of silence, everyone.
- 37: Status, Site base, Mon 03-Dec-2001 18:04:08 MST, covars restarted
I just added X&Ylevels to covars and restarted.
- 27: Power, Site base, Sun 02-Dec-2001 16:32:07 MST, Controlling UPS
To run UPS program:
su -
cd /usr/lib/powerchute
./xpowerchute
Under Configuration->Event Actions
UPS On Battery
configured to send email to maclean, oncley and semmer
Low Battery Condition
configured to send email to maclean, oncley and semmer
will shut down server after 30 seconds
- 13: Base, Site base, Thu 29-Nov-2001 14:28:14 MST, hourly.csh, daily.csh, and SSH
Crontab executes these scripts on $ASTER/projects/FLOSS01/scripts:
hourly.csh: executed at XX:15 every hour from 06:00 to 22:00.
daily.csh: executed every morning at 06:20 MST
Add commands to these scripts do periodic tasks.
One script that is executed from hourly is update_ip_addr:
update_ip_addr: does an ssh to maclean@linus and copies the current
IP address to /net/aster/projects/FLOSS01/floss_ip_addr
- 12: Communications, Site base, Thu 29-Nov-2001 13:53:20 MST, ISP and LAN-modem
The 3com LAN-modem has been configured to dial-up the Earthlink
ISP in Steamboat Springs.
To configure the modem from a system connected to it,
go to this URL with a browser:
http://3com.oc.lanmodem
I've added it as "Lan-modem" to aster's personal toolbar in netscape, so
you can just click on that.
The administrator password is the same as the root password on aster.
ISP info:
steamboat phone number: 871-2640
username: see gordon
password: see gordon
We've set the call duration to 15 minutes.
- 6: Power, Site base, Thu 15-Nov-2001 05:59:36 GMT, UPS software
The black cable with DB9 connectors should be connected between
the UPS and the serial port connection on the back of the dell.
The UPS monitor software runs automatically on bootup.
I have tested it with the Smart-UPS 620. I don't know if the
software needs to be reconfigured to use with the bigger UPS.
The software and log files are in /usr/lib/powerchute.
For display, run: /usr/lib/powerchute/xpowerchute
To reconfigure (if you switch to a bigger ups): Config.sh
The log files are:
powerchute.log # power events
powerchute.dat # time series of voltage, etc - potentially useful!
- 3: Adams, Site base, Sat 10-Nov-2001 21:59:05 GMT, Adam VME serial numbers
cosmos:
backplane #3
matrix: SN 9013
ironics iv3234: SN129043
datel: 320689
marigold
backplane: #4
matrix: SN 940211101
ironics iv3234: SN 821003
datel: SN 320589
On 12/1 the Ironics in marigold was replaced with SN: 422016
(which is the card we got from MIT).
- 2: Base, Site base, Fri 09-Nov-2001 08:15:22 MST, Archive size and scheme
With the 3 sonics on the adams at 60hz the archive sizes are
marigold 67 Mbyte/8 hr = 201 Mbyte/day
cosmos 40 Mbyte/8 hr = 120 Mbyte /day
(no thermocouples on cosmos, and prop vanes at 1 Hz)
SteveO says the thermocouples will run at about 5 Hz and would like
to increase the prop vanes to 5 Hz.
12 thermocouples at 5 hz would be additional 23 Mbyte/day.
The additional prop data is about 25 Mbyte/day.
Eve, one campbell at 20 hz (no krypton/heater yet):
stn2 8.8 Mbyte/ 7.3 hr = 30 Mbyte/day
So the archive will be about 400 Mbyte/day.
This does not include camera images or more than 12 thermocouples.
We will have about 11 Gbyte available on the base system HD,
and 18 Gbyte on the removable HD.
11 Gbyte gives us about 20-25 days archive. So we can keep a second
copy of the files on the removeable HD, and about every 2-3 weeks
someone could swap in another removeable HD, and bring the
other back to Boulder. Hopefully we wouldn't delete any files
on the base until they have been copied to the mass store.
To do this we will need to buy an another 18 Gb HD and its
plastic holder for the Dell latitude module bay.