----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 15 17:42:45 GMT 2020 Year: 20 Doy: 015 Observer: berkey WEATHER COMMENT: berkey: Wed Jan 15 17:43:06 GMT 2020 Temp: 42.1f, Humidity: 71%, Pressure: 28.641in, Wind: 0mph from 168degs, Skies: heavy overcast ___end___ GPS by MLSO: Wed Jan 15 21:45:41 GMT 2020 Successfully logged in to system Good disk mount GPS software running Last 5 GPS data files are: dataoutiq_2019_355_2234.bin 15748400 dataoutiq_2020_015_0000.bin 50988256 dataoutiq_2020_015_0032.bin 2147483647 dataoutiq_2020_015_1942.bin 24992176 dataoutiq_2020_015_1956.bin 236556000 ___end___ GPS COMMENT BY berkey: Wed Jan 15 21:58:57 GMT 2020 Over the last year we have lost a lot of data on the Qians GPS experimenet when it loses connect to its drive. Unfortuantly with the system off the network it is hard to tell when the system is happy and runnnig. To try and catch problems sooner, the GPS system as been connected via rs232 to Wahoo. And we now have a script that runs at 11:45am (hst). That will try to connect to log in to the device, check the usb mount and try to reconnect the drive if needed. It will then make sure the gps software is running and attemp to restart it if nessary. If everything thing is happy with the system we should see output like he above GPS comment an the filename and ssizes of the last 5 gps files created. As we can see from todays output. The system somehow crashed Dec 30th last year and didnt get restarted until yesterday. We can also see the sofware restaared a few times in the last 24hours. In this case these extra daily files represent reboots and testing on my end and not crashes by the hardware of software. Going forward if we either dont see a GPS y MLSO message or see notes about failures some manual intervention will be required on the part of the obsersers to get the system happy again. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY berkey: Thu Jan 16 01:10:08 GMT 2020 No data today but lots of blowing fog and light rain. ___end___ ONSITE STAFF: berkey