XRT HOWTO --- Prepare an Amendable Timeline Due to A Major Flare Watch
2011-Nov-02, Y.N. Su and T. Matsumoto
Overview
Sometimes, Hinode needs to upload a revised timeline on an originally-unplanned upload day due to a
major flare watch. For example, this type of operation has been done for the timelines originally
uploaded on 12 Feb 2011 and 22 Sep 2011. The guide below takes the timeline for 12 Feb 2011 as an
example.
Background
- Timeline revision decided at the Daily Meeting on Monday, 14 February 2011.
- Usually, Monday is a non-upload day with the timeline uploaded
on Saturday, 12 February 2011 running.
- Since Hinode was tracking Active Region 11153 in the original timeline, there was no need to upload
revised S/C pointing table.
- Note that XRT is to revise ONLY timelines in such a case. XRT Table (XOBs) should remain
unchanged since table upload is not planned for uploading operation in an originally-unplanned day.
During the Daily Meeting
- Make sure CP SHOULD NOT click 'OK' button in the Planning Status Page. Since there will be an upload
this evening (Monday evening), it is COs responsibility to click the relevant buttons.
- Make sure CP updates the Daily Events Page to indicate that there will be OP/OG upload.
In the case of Monday, 14 February 2011, CP should:
- For SOT and XRT: Just add OP/OG upload. No SOT_TI/XRT_TI commands are necessary as there won't be table
uploads for SOT & XRT.
- For EIS: Include EIS table upload. Because there is table upload, EIS_TI should also be added.
How To Reivse the Timeline
- Backup the original 20110212_saved folder by renaming it.
- Open the COT, and simply modify the 20110212_saved.tim file so that the modification starts from
new OP_Start + 10 minutes, which is simply because we followed the convention of the first re-pointing starting
at OP_Start + 10 minutes. So the approach is to modify the 2011/02/12 timeline, not to create
a new timeline for 2011/02/14.
- There was no need to import any files (such as plan_term, obev, and so forth) for modifying the
timeline in this case. But for other cases, one may need to import the new pointing file, if the
pointings are modified.
- In the case of revision on 14 Feb. 2011, XOB for AR observation was changed from that for HOP
180 (observe EIT waves) to a standard AR observation XOB.
- Make sure to choose only XOBs that are present in the already-uploaded (in our case, uploaded on
Saturday, 12 Feb. 2011) XRT Table.
- Note that only the timeline after the NEW OP_start (in this case, OP_start on 2011/02/14) needs to
be revised. Other parts, such as any command plan settings and the
sequences inserted in the real time pass do not require modifications. Y. Su tried to change the plan type from "updatable" to
"amendable", but got fatal errors in the timeline. So, we'd better not change them.
- Run post_cot with pdl as follows:
1) xrtco@xrtco> post_cot 2011/02/12 pdl
- Note that the date should be Saturday (2011/02/12), not Monday (2011/02/14)
- This post_cot successfully compiles the timeline (updates files in ~xrtco/cmdpln/latest), but results
in errors as shown at the bottom of this section.
- The errors are caused by the automatically-inserted 'y' for pdlchk.sh that is asking whether the date
of 2011/02/14 (not 02/12!) is OK.
- Once the errors attached below are shown, we need to quit post-cot (by typing ctrl+c) and execute
the following commands. Note that these are the commands that failed to be performed due to the
aforementioned post-cot error.
2) xrtco@xrtco> ssh sbusxrt@133.74.8.203 (No password is required)
3) sbusxrt@cp> sh ~/tool/pdlchk.sh
# The date you'd like to check is [20110214]? (y/n)
==>
* Type n here.
# Please input the date
==> yyyymmdd :
* Type 20110212 (instead of the default 20110214)
This successfuly completes pdlchk.sh
4) sbusxrt@cp> sh ~/tool/xrtcmdi/cmdicopy.sh
All of the above series of commands substitutes the regular post_cot function.
- Run xrt_plan
Example Error Message when Running post_cot for an Amendable Timeline
[xrtco@xrtco 20110212_exported]$ post_cot 2011/02/12 pdl
Date = 2011/02/12
Using exported directory
/home/flare/slb/xrtco//command_plan_creation/2011/02/12/20110212_exported
Using saved directory /home/flare/slb/xrtco//command_plan_creation/2011/02/12/20110212_saved
Using submission directory /home/flare/slb/xrtco//cmdpln/latest
Archive directory /home/flare/slb/xrtco//archive/2011/02/12 already exists. Are you sure you want to
overwrite it? [y/n]
y
Removing /home/flare/slb/xrtco//archive/2011/02/12.
Creating these directories:
mkdir: created directory `/home/flare/slb/xrtco//archive/2011/02/12'
Cleaning out input and output directories to make hex file for table upload.
Copying files from /home/flare/slb/xrtco//command_plan_creation/2011/02/12/20110212_exported to
make hex file.
moved XRTAEC-20110212*.xml to XRTAEC-000A.xml
moved XRTARS-20110212*.xml to XRTARS-0008.xml
moved XRTFLD-20110212*.xml to XRTFLD-0014.xml
moved XRTFLT-20110212*.xml to XRTFLT-0002.xml
Creating hex file. This will take a little while.
1
ANT BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Removing comments and NOPs from orl file.
/home/flare/slb/xrtco//command_plan_creation/2011/02/12/20110212_exported
Archiving /home/flare/slb/xrtco//command_plan_creation/2011/02/12 exported and saved directories.
Archiving html version of timeline.
Archiving snapshot of COT database.
Cleaning out ~/cmdpln/latest.
Archiving and submitting files for chief planners.
Running orl checker on CO machine.
(This will be a post-deadline check.)
spawn ssh sbusxrt@133.74.8.203
Last login: Sat Feb 12 11:41:28 2011 from xrtco.solar.isas.jaxa.jp
cp.solar.isas.jaxa.jp 68:% setenv LANG C
cp.solar.isas.jaxa.jp 69:% sh ~/tool/pdlchk.sh
# The date you'd like to check is [20110214]? (y/n)
==>y
OP-upload is not planned this time.
mv: cannot stat `/home/sbusxrt/ISACS/SOLAR-B/data/input/request/XRT_20110214????.orl': No such
file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/home/flare/slb/xrtco/cmdpln/latest/*_20110214????.hex': No such file or directory