Experiment Control System

To install the runcontrol project on the crack from scratch, do the following (version numbers valid on the date of this page).

1. export DIM_DNS_NODE=crack1li1.daq.lhcb
2. startPA
3. make a new distributed project with name 'runcontrol'
4. give it System Name: HLT_31 and System number: 31
5. edit the config file:

[general]
pmonPort = 13100
dataPort = 13101
eventPort = 13102

[dist]
distPort = 13110

6. copy the fwInstallation tool into the project directory and unzip -a
7. download and unzip -a the latest LHCb Framework (1.15)
8. install the components (dec 17 2007):
   • fwAccessControl 2.5.1
   • fwAlarmHandling 3.1.1
   • fwConfigurationDB 3.3.3
   • fwCore 3.2.0
   • fwDIM 15.02.0
   • fwEFF 2.0.2
   • fwExternelAlertHandler 1.0.2
   • fwFarmMonitorControl 3.2
   • fwGaucho 2.18
9. add a Motif User Interface to the project with options -menuBar -cionBar -p fwEFF/fwEFFNavigator.pnl
10. remove the corresponding windows ui
11. start the dns (if not already started)
12. run the fwEFF/fwEFFNavigator.pnl manager
13. configure the nodes and tasks to run on the farm:
    • add the follwing tasktypes (right click):
      • MBMinit
      • ErrorSrv
      • EvtHolder
      • EvtProd
      • MEPRX
      • MDFWriter
    • add 1 subfarm
    • inside the subfarm, add 4 cracknodes, give the name in uppercase: CRACK1NODExxx
    • for each node, add the tasks:
      • the 6 above, click the 'enabled' button for all, the 'deamon' button for MBMinit and ErrorSrv to indicate they are class1 tasks
      • GauchoHLT (4x)
      • MON - leave the panel empty, but click on enabled
    • for the tasks, the paths are ./MBMinit.sh, ./ErrorSrv.sh, ./EvtHolder.sh, ./EvtProd.sh, ./MEPRx.sh, ./MDFWriter.sh
    • the working directory is /home/daq/cmtuser/Online/OnlineTasks/job
    • the UTGID is node001%d_taskname_%n (same as the Process Name)
    • the user is daq
    • when the nodes are configured, due to a bug in fwEFF, the nodenames need to be changed. A leading 0 after CRACK1NODE has to be removed, so the nodenames become CRACK1NODE1,CRACK1NODE2,CRACK1NODE3 and CRACK1NODE4.
    • note that copy/paste doesn't work when you are filling in the panels
14. configure the farm monitoring control (Bologna part), start the manager -p fwFarmMonitorControl/fwFMCMainPanel.pnl:
    • choose the tab DataPoint Utilities, create all
    • choose fwEFF, Update FMC's DPs (3 times)
    • choose Node Utilities, FMC Autoupdate
15. start the manager -p fwGaucho/GauchoConfig.pnl:
    • create the FSM
    • start PVSSDIM -num 30 (DimCowboy)
    • set the startup for all PVSSDIM managers to always
    • run the discovery jobs
    • click on create panels (redo steps 1-4 in case of problems)
16. start the device editor navigator, FSM, start all, right click on subfarm001, view

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