Subject: Re: [sdss3-25mlog 524] 2.5m obslog 20120217 (MJD 55975)
From: Kaike Pan
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:28:31 -0700
Hi Garrett and Viktor,=20
Thanks a lot for your big effort in getting systems to where we can at =
least take data.=20
-kaike
On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:22 AM, gebelke@apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
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>                       APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY SDSS 2.5M
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>                                 OBSERVING LOG
>                          Friday February 17, 2012
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>                                  (MJD 55975)
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> ----  Observing Team ----
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> Viktor Malanushenko
> Garrett Ebelke
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> Phone Support:
>  Jon Brinkmann
>  Fritz Stauffer
>  Dan Long
>  Kaike Pan
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> ---- Observing Plan ----
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> BOSS
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> ---- Observing Summary ----
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> Network problems, high humidity, high winds, blowing snow, falling =
snow and
> clouds prevented us from opening.
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> When we arrived on-site, the entire 2.5m network was down. We could =
not
> communicate to the telescope or monitor any systems. Jon and Fritz =
spent the
> afternoon working on it and in the end they traced it down to a faulty
> network switch. With Jon's Phone Support, I salvaged a network switch =
from the
> control
> room and replaced the one in the server room. However, the salvaged =
network
> switch does not have 3 ports for fiber links, it only has 2. So we are =
utilizing
> the Building Support and Telescope fibers but not using the Control =
Room at
> the moment. Which means that minidru, landru and the 2.5m control room =
monitor
> are not operational (on the network that is). We are using STUI from =
our laptops
> over the wireless
> network.=20
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> After finally getting the network problem resolved, we spent the next
> few hours getting systems and actors back online and finally got the =
telescope
> checked out.=20
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> Everything is operational and should be ready for observations =
tomorrow night
> when the weather clears up.=20
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