JIVE Wiki

This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong.
======Feedback Tools======
This page contains information on how to manage and maintain the tools used for feedback both from, and to stations. These consist of three main parts:

=====The Session Feedback Page and Database=====
[[http://old.evlbi.org/session/feedback.html|The session feedback page exists here]] and must be generated for each session.\\
To do so log into dop88 as jive and go to the session directory (for the jive password see Bob):
<code bash>
ssh jive@dop288
cd /www/evlbi.org/session/
</code>
Then create the block session file (filename format is blockyy_sessionNumber). A tool has been made to assist you with this called schparse.py. It will read the latest block schedule on the web and attempt to create a block session file for you. You should make sure to check and edit this file by hand.
<code bash>
./schparse.py
emacs/vim/nano blockyy_#.asc
</code>
Here is an example file from session 3 2018:
<file>
EVN-SCHEDULE SESSION 3/2018

PART 1 = 6  cm
===============

6   JIVE        N18C3
6   Caccianiga  EC066A
6   Biggs       EB069
6   Gunn        CL18C3
6   Tarchi      ET038E
6   Yang        RY007B
6   Marcote     EM133A
6   Yang        RY007C
6   Marcote     EM133B
6   Guirado     EG104A
6   Guirado     EG104B
6   Schulz      ES090A
6   Caccianiga  EC066B

PART 2 = 3.6/13 cm
===============

3.6 JIVE        N18SX2
3.6 Titov       ET036B
3.6 Gunn        CL18X2
3.6 Schulz      ES090B
3.6 Panessa     EP113A
3.6 Bietenholz  EB066A
3.6 Bietenholz  EB066B

PART 3 = 18 cm
===============

18  JIVE        N18L3
18  Polatidis   EP106D
18  Polatidis   EP111A
18  Gunn        EP106E
18  Tarchi      EP111B
18  Polatidis   CL18L3
18  Marcote     ET038F
18  JIVE        EP111C
18  Gunn        EM133C

PART 4 = 1.3/0.7 cm
===============

1.3 Schulz      N18K3
1.3 Tarchi      CL18K3
1.3 Panessa     ES090C
1.3 Bach        ET038G
1.3 Bach        EP113B
1.3 Tarchi      EB064C
1.3 Bach        FR051
1.3             ET038H
1.3             EB064D
</file>
Note the blank lines at the bottom. In this case the PI names have been shifted up and need to be manually reordered.

Finally run makesess to generate the actual html files:
<code bash>
./makesess mmmyy blockyy_#.asc
</code>

=====Feedbackplots=====
[[http://evlbi.org/feedbackplots/login|The "feedbackplots" web page]] provides both ampcal information and a searchable database of feedback from both station submissions and support scientist written PI letters.
This page is behind a login to prevent vandalism. All JIVE staff should know (or know how to find) this login information so ask anyone if you need it.\\
It runs on grafana connecting to a mysql database.
The grafana server is written in go and lives on dop288 in:
<code bash>
/export/jive/jops/feedbackplots
</code>
It can be started manually by simply running 
<code bash>
/export/jive/jops/feedbackplots/bin/grafana-server
</code>
However it should start automatically on all reboots due to the following crontab (as jops user):
<code bash>
jops@dop288:~/feedbackplots> crontab -el
MAILTO=blanchard@jive.eu
@reboot sleep 60 && cd ~/feedbackplots/ && screen -d -m  bin/grafana-server
</code>
The database server used is db0 and the database is called "ampcal" containing two tables: "ampcal" and "feedback" for the ampcal and feedback information respectively.\\
This database is fed by three scripts:
<code>
ampcal.sh
</code>
Lives on pipe (jop83) and takes the self calibration data from the pipeline to record amplitude calibration values per station.
<code bash>
www/evlbi.org/feedback/jivefbe.php
</code>
This is the script used by the feedback website to allow stations to enter feedback for each experiment. Inserts data into both old style "flat" text files and the db0 database.
<code>
parsePIletter.py
</code>
Lives on eee2 and parses the piletter written by support scientists, adding further feedback to the database.

=====Mattermost=====
[[http://coms.evlbi.org|Mattermost]] is the communications tool hosted by JIVE used for chats within the EVN.\\
It is hosted on a virtual machine with hostname:coms.evlbi.org\\
Mattermost is installed as a service and can be administered by logging in to coms.evlbi.org as user coms:
<code bash>
ssh coms@coms.evlbi.org
service mattermost status
</code>

Sometimes nginx (the webserver) tries to come back up too quickly after a network outage and will have to be manually restarted:
<code bash>
ssh coms@coms.evlbi.org
sudo  service nginx status
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-01-18 12:57:59 CET; 2h 9min ago
sudo service nginx restart
</code>
The actual mattermost executables and files are stored in /opt/mattermost
\\
The mattermost database is backed up to ~jops/mmbackup/ every day