Monitoring and controlling the SKA telescope manager: a peculiar LMC system in the framework of the SKA LMCs

Matteo Di Carlo; Mauro Dolci; Riccardo Smareglia; Matteo Canzari; Simone Riggi

doi:10.1117/12.2231614

9 August 2016 Monitoring and controlling the SKA telescope manager: a peculiar LMC system in the framework of the SKA LMCs

Matteo Di Carlo, Mauro Dolci, Riccardo Smareglia, Matteo Canzari, Simone Riggi

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Proceedings Volume 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV; 99133S (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231614
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The SKA Telescope Manager (TM) is the core package of the SKA Telescope: it is aimed at scheduling observations, controlling their execution, monitoring the telescope health status, diagnosing and fixing its faults and so on. To do that, TM directly interfaces with the Local Monitoring and Control systems (LMCs) of the various SKA Elements (e.g. Dishes, Low-Frequency Aperture Array, etc.), exchanging commands and data with each of them. TM in turn needs to be monitored and controlled, in order its continuous and proper operation – and therefore that of the whole SKA Telescope – is ensured. It appears indeed that, while the unavailability of one or more instances of any other SKA element should result only in a degraded operation for the whole telescope, a problem in TM could cause a complete stop of any operation. In addition to this higher responsibility, a local monitoring and control system for TM has to collect and display logging data directly to operators, perform lifecycle management of TM applications and directly deal - when possible - with management of TM faults (which also includes a direct handling of TM status and performance data). In this paper, the peculiarities presented by the TM monitoring and control and the consequences they have on the design of a related LMC system are addressed and discussed.

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Matteo Di Carlo, Mauro Dolci, Riccardo Smareglia, Matteo Canzari, and Simone Riggi "Monitoring and controlling the SKA telescope manager: a peculiar LMC system in the framework of the SKA LMCs", Proc. SPIE 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV, 99133S (9 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231614

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