Online telecon notes for February 5, 2003

Attending:

• Connie Houchens (GSFC/ACD)
• Sharon Orsborne (GSFC/ACD)
• Glen Ungar (GSFC/ACD)
• Byron Leas (NRL/CAL)
• Johann Cohen-Tanugi (INFN Pisa/TKR)
• Luca Latronico (INFN Pisa/TKR)
• Mike Huffer (SLAC/ELX)
• Larry Wai (SLAC/I&T-IFCT)
• Selim Tuvi (SLAC/I&T-Online), minutes author
• Ric Claus (SLAC/I&T-Online)

Topics:

• Core (Ric, Selim)
• Web site moving to http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/IntegrationTest/default.htm
• Difficulty with RunControl, working on bug fixes
• Requests
• Byron: Modified evtCli to use NumPy

q Saving system state in the event data file that is shared with CAL offline people

q Online needs to support transporting collected data to SAS

1. Official plan is to use FITS files

2. In light of Byron’s Considering storing Meta data as part of the FITS file

• Sharon: Okay to use setReg/getReg instead of node.attr syntax?

q Online tried to preserve the SCL way of writing scripts/syntax.

q Selim doesn’t consider setReg/getReg to be internal methods, so okay to use them

• TKR:

q Would like to have a preferences feature for configuring RunControl

1. The plan was to use the runControl.cfg file method Selim provided

2. Agreed that a GUI interface to this file from the RunControl menu bar would be nice. Johann volunteered to look into it

q Would like the ability to run several applications successively against a given hardware configuration without repeatedly loading the schema/config file

1. Online will look into this, but the expectation has been that this would be handled through an application that comprises a suite of tests. Determining which test to run would be up to the application (e.g. pop up a GUI to ask, loop over all of them, etc.)

q Would like to make available on the TKR page of RunControl a testsuite GUI and a per-test GUI

• Byron:
• Is a schema attached to a specific instance of hardware elements or a hardware configuration in which the individual elements can be exchanged freely?

q Intention was the latter: A schema would be applied to a combination of hardware components, irrespective of the components’ serial numbers. Expected serial numbers were software readable to build the pedigree of individual parts.

q Mike: Software readable serial numbers was floated and shot down due to cost

q Will have to depend on the tracking of parts administratively (entry as script parameter and hand written on the associated traveler)

q Complicated by the fact that the serial number of some parts, e.g. the TEM, is not visible in all cases and that there is no guarantee that components and their enclosures will always be kept together

q Serial numbers will need to go into the test reports

• TKR (Luca L.)
• Testing MCM from Santa Cruz. Using command line scripts (vs. scripts written against the RunControl framework) are working.
• Integrated hippo with these scripts.
• One script modified to work in the RunControl framework.
• Observed bug mentioned above as well
• Test results to be posted on the TKR web page (Link?)
• Final script will be posted to CVS.
• CVS problems from Italy. Will check permissions.
• Problems compiling sip
• Should not need to do this. All relevant dlls are in the Online/DLLs directory. Likely that the PYTHONPATH environment variable is missing an entry
• TKR Bias current measuring zero. Mike/Leonid will check.
• Bias current readout was shown to work at SLAC
• Readout of bias current is per tower

• TKR (Johann)
• RunControl code bug discovery.
• Bug fixed
• Redo design of the base class to interface more generically with RunControl
• Preferences, mentioned above. Volunteered for this task
• GUI that should come with the base class.
• Planning to work on GUI for front-end configuration
• Byron: Suggest that the state of the system be restored to the schema/config file specified configuration after each run
• CAL (Byron)
• Has Online looked into the Hippo problem he reported earlier? Low priority request.
• Not yet
• Working on Calibration/Trends database information for SAS people.
• Hardware: Coordinating with Jim Ampe
• Worked on converting some scripts to the RunControl framework
  
  
• ACD (Sharon)

• More Qt and PyQt licenses needed for 2-3 developers.
• VS.NET CDs shipped to Byron today.
• Distribution of the software that ACD wrote.
• Glen:
• Asks for ICD document. Online will consider revisiting this after the iCDR.
• What should the ACD tests do? Who is the customer?
• Larry:
• Tests will be run by IFCT
• End item data should be provided.
• Pushing on TKR, since they are expecting TKR engineering module to arrive at SLAC.
• Byron
• First requirements documentation should arrive and then the software
• Level 4 requirement for documentation
• Ric: Post meeting note: See Eduardo’s presentation from the Online workshop and his document LAT-MD-00446-04 for tests expected from the ACD
• Larry expects subsystem scripts to show up incrementally for integration by the IFCT group
• Byron: This is not the model he’s working against
• Sharon: People will be able to retrieve snapshots of subsystem software from CVS
• Asks documentation on setting up CVS. Selim will provide instructions.
  
  

• ELX (Mike)
• 5 prototype LCBs arrived.

o It hasn't been decided whether to send the DOA TEM back. Relevant people away until next week.

o Due to lack of connectors, Mike requests that it be sent back to SLAC

o Test stand equipment sent to UCSC. Request for someone from UCSC to attend these meetings

o 30 page memo sent to Dave Thompson. Received no response.

o Heads up for G2 impending arrival. Goddard needs to prepare for it because of the incompatibility with G1.

o Glen: Connectors ordered.

o Connie, Sharon & Bob Baker will use G2 hardware.

o Expect to receive 4 instances. At odds with Gunther’s plan. Glen and Gunther to work it out.