Guidelines in evaluating
DMT monitors during the M8 mini run
HTML Summary page:
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Does is exist? -- If
not, report the absence as a bug
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Is the summary page understandable
/ sensible? (Are the labels, units, etc. clear?)
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Is there a recent date / time stamp
to confirm the monitor is still working correctly?
DMT viewer plots (and minute-trends
seen in data viewer):
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Are there any DMT viewer plots accessible?
-- If
not, report the absence as a bug
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Do the plots (or at least a sampling
of them) make any sense?
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Are the plots consistent with the
HTML summary page?
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Are they consistent with the history
of the IFO locking?
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If there are DMT trends produced, do they
seem consistent with DMT viewer plots?
(be aware of a latency of up to 1 hour in DMT trends)
Alarms:
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Are there alarms being reported
from this monitor?
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If so, are they understandable?
(clear descriptions given after clicking on the link)
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Are alarms (or lack of alarms) consistent
with the HTML summary page?
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Are alarms consistent with what
else you know?
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Should the monitor impose a more
stringent requirement on IFO state before alarming?
Other:
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Suggestions for improvement or clarification?
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Was anything confusing? Cumbersome
to use?
Reporting your evaluation:
Write up plaintext file (or html
file) and insert in LHO elog for each monitor evaluated
Where appropriate, enter
a bug report