“Cronjobs” Chung Khim Lae The University of Iowa

Objectives Monitor trends or behavior (slope or difference) of some quantities Provide early warnings via /SMS to experts Provide more complicated checks than simple PVSS alarms Not meant for shifter’s eye 14-Jun-162

Differences PVSS Alarms Event-triggered Uses DP configs; cannot summarize info from multiple PCs Alerts are shown on alarm screen For shifter/normal operation 14-Jun-163 Cronjobs Time-triggered Script based; can check across multiple PCs Alerts are notified through /SMS For expert; doesn’t need immediate action

Old Jobs were written by several people who had left CMS Multiple incoherent data point types and elements used for monitoring Different approaches used resulting in lots of code that were hard to understand 14-Jun-164

New Clean up and remove unnecessary functions Move to central CMS Alert System to send or SMS Unified framework: a single data point type with one element to handle the monitoring 14-Jun-165

Framework 14-Jun-166 Main Script Job Script Notification User schedule alert subscribe error Job Script Notification schedule alert subscribe error SMS Job Script Notification schedule User

Panel 14-Jun-167 Click Change Enter! Can change the running period of each job through a panel.