Pointing Models configuration control

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Archive Pointing Models procedure

This procedure explains how to archive a new Pointing Model for the "short term" to avoid loosing configuration control. In production, TMCDB will take care of this,

Work Flow

  1. Operators and Astronomers produce a new Pointing Model
  2. A jira ticket with these files attached should be created and assigned to AIV-COMP
  3. AIV-COMP will archived these data and installed the module at $ACSROOT/config/pointing
  4. Operators should load the Pointing Models from the $ACSROOT/config/pointing diretory

Module and file name convention

The Pointing Models files are archived at http://svn.aiv.alma.cl/svnaiv/COMP/config/trunk/PointingModels module.

We have to archive Pointing Models files and data to produce this model. The data file is the LastObservation<date>.dat generated by the Scheduling Block at almaproc account.

 ./PoitingModels/config/<PM files>
 ./PoitingModels/config/<PM data files>

PT files shoud have the following format:

 <antenna name>-<date>-<D/N>-<PAD><X>.mod
 <antenna name>: use the current ALMA definition for antenna name, ie: DV01, DA41, ACA01 etc
 <date>: YYYYMMDD in UTC
 <D/N>: D: daytime, N: night time
 <PAD>: PAD name
 <X>: a incremental number starting from 1

PT data files should have the same name format but with extension .dat

For example for "Night Pointing model for Vertex #1 located at Vertex's Pad #1 for 2008-04-16 " the files name will be:

 DV01-20080416-D-PV1-1.mod
 DV01-20080416-D-PV1-1.dat

Installation

To install this module

  • Login as almamgr
  • download the module
 gns almamgr>svn co http://svn.aiv.alma.cl/svnaiv/COMP/config/trunk/PointingModels 
  • Set the INTROOT
 gns almamgr>export INTROOT=$ACSROOT
  • install the module
 gns almamgr>cd PontingModels/src
 gns almamgr>make clean all install
  • verify that the files are installed at $ACSROOT/config/pointing diretory

References

Computing Procedures