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STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN PROCEDURES (JTR Dec 2002)

CONTENTS
  1. USER STARTUP (Remote & IRTF Observers )
  2. OBSERVER CHECKOUT (Observer checkout - start of night)
  3. OBSERVER SHUTDOWN (Observer - end of night)
  4. STAFF STARTUP Start up VNC, XUI, and DV (TO/Day Crew/Spex Staff only)
  5. KILL and RESTARTING ICs (TO/Day Crew/SpeX staff only)
  6. COMPLETE REBOOT/COLD START (TO/Day Crew/SpeX staff only)


A. USER STARTUP (Remote and IRTF Observers)

    The procedures for running spex for remote observing or at the IRTF are the same. Bigdog and guidedog each run in a VNC session. Observers just need to connect to these sessions. The step are:

    1. Create your Guest Account.
      Instruction for creating the guest account are located here: Guest Accounts

    2. Contact the IRTF staff for your VNC session number.
      The IRTF staff will create and start the VNC session running the XUI (User Interface) and DV (Data Viewer) for each instruments. They will give you the session numbers N, and password so you can connect to the session. For example, if N=1, the connect to "stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1".

    3. Start your vnc viewer
      On the IRTF workstation, type of following command. This example assumes you display number is 1 )

        > vncviewer stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1

      Remote user can connect to the VNC session using their own VNC client software.
      Details on VNC operations for observers at the IRTF is found here: Using VNC with the IRTF


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    B. OBSERVER CHECKOUT (Observer Checkout- start of night)

  1. Check that no icon ERRORS are showing, check that both array temperatures are reading 30.00K (Cntl ChA 30.00K in Bigdog XUI and Guidedog XUI)



  2. Make sure the Order Sorter filter wheel is closed. OS Flt -> BLANK

  3. Make sure AutoSave is off


  4. Check Bigdog array (spectrograph). In OBS window set ITIME=1.0, COADD=1, CYCLES=1. Click green GO button at top of Bigdog XUI. An array image will appear in panel 0 of Bigdog DV. You should see array image showing counts averaging about zero and some bad pixels.



  5. Check Guidedog array (imager/guider). In OBS window set ITIME=1.0, COADD=1, CYCLES=1. Click green GO button at top of Guidedog XUI. An array image will appear in panel 0 of Guidedog DV. You should see array image showing counts averaging about zero and some bad pixels



  6. Configure Guidedog for focussing GFLT -> J, H or K (or 1% narrow-band cont-K for very bright stars)

    OS Flt -> OPEN

    MIRROR -> OUT (Lmp/Mir/Sh icon at far left)

  7. Type 'tcs1_status' in an xterm window to load the focusing widget

  8. Go to first star and focus telescope (see How to focus)

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C. OBSERVER SHUTDOWN (Observer - end of night)

  1. OS Flt -> BLANK
  2. MIRROR -> IN (Lmp/Mir/Sh icon at far left)
  3. QUIT Bigdog XUI&DV, QUIT Guidedog XUI&DV
  4. QUIT other processes (xgfit, hexapod etc.)
  5. EXIT stefan (Remote Observers should request the TO or Daycrew kill their VNC sessions).

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D. STAFF STARTUP (TO/Day Crew/SpeX staff only)
    See if the bigdog and guidedog VNC session are active using vnc -show
    If needed, start the VNC Sessions for bigdog and guidedog:

      vnc -start bigdog spex
      vnc -start guidedog spex

    Make sure the IC, XUI and DV are running.


    1. IC: Click on the cybex for bigdog. Login as bigdog, and in an xterm type startic.
    2. DV: On the bigdog VNC session, click on "Bigdog xterm" to ssh into bigdog, type startdv to start DV.
    3. XUI: On the bigdog VNC session, click on "Bigdog xterm" to ssh into bigdog, type bigdogxui to start the XUI.

    Repeat the above, but for guidedog.

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E. KILL and RESTARTING ICs (TO/Day Crew/SpeX staff only)

Note the SpeX ICs can be killed and restarted by the TOs on max. This takes about half-a-minute. The ICs should be restarted before each new observer (this resets the defaults which may have been changed by the previous observer).

E.1 BIGDOG

  1. On stefan, rlogin bigdog -l bigdog
  2. type 'killic' (if this fails reboot Bigdog - see below)
  3. On cybex push 'Bigdog' button, Bigdog display will appear on Viewsonic
  4. if not already there, cd current/ic
  5. type 'startic'
  6. Restart the XUI in the bigdog VNC

E.2 GUIDEDOG

  1. On stefan, rlogin guidedog -l guidedog
  2. Type 'killic' (if this fails reboot Guidedog - see below)
  3. On cybex push 'guidedog' button, guidedog display will appear on Viewsonic
  4. If not already there, cd current/ic
  5. Type 'startic'
  6. Restart the XUI in the guidedog VNC

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F. COMPLETE REBOOT/COLD START (TO/Day Crew/SpeX staff only)

  1. Power-down arrays (use 'power4' icon or 'telnet power4' or manually at MIM))
  2. Quit xui&dv
  3. 'killic' bigdog and guidedog (see C.)
  4. Login to guidedog as root
  5. In guidedog console, 'init 5' to shutdown guidedog ('init 6' to cycle)
  6. Login to bigdog as root
  7. In bigdog console, 'init 5' to shutdown bigdog. When you see OK prompt, you can turnoff power to the ICs
  8. Shutdown power on ICs in TCS room
  9. Bring up littledog window on Viewsonic using cybex
  10. Login to littledog as root
  11. Type 'halt' on littledog (or 'reboot' to halt/reboot)
  12. Turn off littledog motor power (lower-left switch of littledog box at MIM). Then, using power4, cycle power to littledog. Turn motor power back on
  13. Wait while littledog reboots
  14. Turn on power to ICs in TCS room
  15. Switch to bigdog window on Viewsonic using cybex
  16. Login to bigdog as 'bigdog'
  17. cd current/ic
  18. In xterm window 'startic'
  19. Switch to guidedog window on Viewsonic using cybex
  20. Login to guidedog as 'guidedog'
  21. cd current/ic
  22. In xterm window 'startic'
  23. On stefan restart xui&dv (see above)
  24. Icons will show ERRORS, init all mechanisms (in xui SETUP window). (AFOC usually requires two inits.)
  25. STARTUP check list (D.)

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