== 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: ===

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/chksys 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.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/chktmcs 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.


* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/getSpectTemperatures getSpectTemperatures] -- display various aspects
  of the spectrograph temperatures from Virus or Lrs2.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/hettime hettime] -- convert between the various notions of time
  at HET; index time, Unix time, and ISO-8601 strings.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/listen listen] -- listen for TMCS messages and write them to a log file.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/monitor monitor] -- listen for messages from the Control Systems and
  record them in a database.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/startsys startsys] -- start some or all of the Control Systems.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/syscmd syscmd] -- send commands to the Control Systems.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/trajectory trajectory] -- create and run various types of trajectories.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/vnctrk vnctrk] -- create a VNC window to the tracker engineering computer system.

* [wiki:HetDescription/jrf/template template] -- blank template for commands.