<history-file-checker-rhodes.pl> script documentation

  1. Introduction:
    history-file-checker-rhodes.pl is a simple perl script to check that all the HISTORY files, produced by acis-backstop.pl, have been populated with the latest information from the weekly load. It uses the focal plane history file, FPHIST-2001.dat (located in /export/acis-flight/FLU-MON/), as a proxy for all the history files. The script reads the time value corresponding to the last row in this file and determines the current time (at run-time; script is executed by CRON at the top of the hour, every hour) via the UNIX command 'date'. If the time difference between the last row in the focal plane history file and the current time is less than 2.0 days, the script spawns email alerts to 'acisdude' and suggests that ACE-update.ksh has not been run yet. If the time difference is less than 1.0 days, in addition to sending email alerts, the script also sends an alert message to all cell phones and pagers carried by personnel in the CXC ACIS Ops team (including Dan Schwartz).
  2. Execution dependencies:
    Run via CRON at the top of the hour, every hour by 'acisdude' on the machine 'rhodes'.
  3. Script dependencies:
    Scripts used by history-file-checker-rhodes.pl
    none
    Scripts that depend on the outputs
    none
  4. File dependencies:
    Input files:
    none
    Output files:
    none
  5. Code Location and execution
  6. Problems and Issues
  7. Notes

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Last modified: Wed Jan 14 10:17:37 EST 2004