Using the utility scripts

Common Command Line Flags

All the python commands have some command line flags in common. If applicable this will be

-h --help	provides a list of the available command line options
--version	print the version string to the Standard Output and exit
-v --verbose	print lots of useful (or not) information about what is going on

Where applicable the following options indicate which Control System to talk to:

-g --gui	the Tcs Gui interface
-L --legacy	the Legacy Control System (legacyServer)
-l --lrs2 --ldas	the LRS or LDAS control system (camra)
-n --named	the tcsnamed process (tcsnamed)
-P --pfip	the Prime Focus Instrument Package Control System (pfipServer)
-p --pas	the Payload Alignment System Control System (pasServer)
-T --tcs	the Telescope Control System (tcs_server)
-t --tracker	the Tracker Control System (tracker_server)
-V --virus --vdas	the Virus or VDAS Control System (camra)

Useful Commands:

• chksys? -- This bash script searches the process table and prints the lines associated with the control systems to the standard output. At this time it is a shell script with no command line flags. There is no general way to search for control systems so this script simply searchs by name. If your create a new control systems, then you will have to modifiy this script. There are no command line options. The script looks for the strings tracker_server, tcs_server, tcs_monitor, legacyServer, LogServer?, pasServer, pfipServer, tcsnamed, camra_server, tcs_proxy, ldas_monitor, vdas_monitor, tcs_log_relay, Gui, apcServer, and startsys.

• chktmcs? -- This bash script does a quick check of the TMCS listen log. A different file name on the command line will cause a search on the named file. The default file is /opt/het/hetdex/logs/Mon/listen/listen.log, which is a link to the current file.

• getSpectTemperatures -- display various aspects of the spectrograph temperatures from Virus or Lrs2.

• hettime -- convert between the various notions of time at HET; index time, Unix time, and ISO-8601 strings.

• listen? -- listen for TMCS messages and write them to a log file.

• monitor -- listen for messages from the Control Systems and record them in a database.

• startsys? -- start some or all of the Control Systems.

• syscmd? -- send commands to the Control Systems.

• trajectory? -- create and run various types of trajectories.

• vnctrk? -- create a VNC window to the tracker engineering computer system.

• template -- blank template for commands.