Instructions For Shifters

Note: Step #0 should be done one time only, not once per shift. The other steps should be done once per shift.

0. Register your grid subject in the DZero VOMS and register in all SAM groups.
   
   1. To register in all SAM groups go to:
      http://d0db-prd.fnal.gov/sam_admin/cgi/autoRegister.py
   2. To register in the DZero VOMS see the User Instructions at:
      http://www-d0.fnal.gov/VO/DZero_VO_Instructions.html
      
      
1. Locate in the working directory.
   
   $ cd /prj_root/2631/automc/daj
   
   
2. Obtain bash shell if not already using it.
   
   $ bash
   
   
3. Set up the environment and get a grid proxy for submitting jobs.
   
   $ source setup_samgrid
   
   If the shifter has a grid certificate (see note 10 below) a 14 day grid proxy is created from it, else the shifter is prompted to get a 7 day Kerberos ticket from which a grid proxy is created. Note that after this command the shell will make all files created group writeable.
   
   
4. Start a new automc daemon.
   
   $ daj_daemon.py
   
   The new daemon will wait until an old running one finishes. This should take < 30 seconds except when the old daemon is submitting jobs. In which case it may take as long as an hour or more. There is no need to do anything except monitor the old daemon's log files.
   
   
5. When the new daemon starts the names of the new log files are printed to the terminal. At least the run log should be monitored in a terminal window with the command "tail -f" as in:
   
   $ tail -f dajd_20061214204719_run.log
   
   There is also an associated error log such as dajd_20061214204719_error.log which should be consulted if there are problems.
   
   
6. A summary of requests being managed by auto mc is available at http://www-d0.fnal.gov/computing/mcprod/dajd/dajd_status.html. This page automatically updates every 62 minutes.
   
   
7. Email notification of significant problems will go to the address specified as the value of the email_errors_to keyword in the file dajdrc. This defaults to the user who started the daemon at the local host.
   
   
8. More information on the auto mc daemon can be found in the files dajd_howto.html and daj_daemon.html in this directory.
   
   
9. Refer problems, bugs, suggestions to snow at fnal.gov.
   
   
10. Caution: Do not modify the files dajdrc (except the notify_user value), dajd_quotas, dajd_ignore, and anything in the mcp17 directory unless you know what you are doing.