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How to start the pool session with the NCS

Starting the gopool daemon

This daemon is used to upload the heterodyne scans. Ask the operator to do the following:

•     - ssh -X  mrt@mrt-lx3
      > gopool

Login at the control room

•     - Open a session at mrt-lx4: pool/passwd (ask operator or AoD for passwd)
      - Open a session at mrt-lx7: flexible/passwd (ask operator or AoD for passwd)

Start Pako in mrt-lx4:0.0

•     - Go to "paKo" virtual desktop.
      - Open a paKo terminal (same passwd as for the pool account).
      - > goPako (setup the pako session).
      - > pakitoDisplay (open a window with the paKo output).
      - > pako (enter in the paKo program).

Start the observation monitoring in mrt-lx4:0.1

•     - Go to "ObsMonitor" virtual desktop.
      - Open a paKo terminal (same passwd as for the pool account).
      - > antDisplay (start the observation monitoring) {X} Deprecated 
      - Open the web browser konqueror and open various Tab at the following URI (should be done on the Operator Screen):   
         - file:/ncsServer/mrt/ncs/monitor/scanInfo.html  (Job Informations)
         - file:/ncsServer/mrt/ncs/observationQueues (look at the pool directory for the job submitted)
         - http://mrt-lx1/mainWiki  (internal wiki with informations for NCS, Pool, etc: Use it as a feedback for NCS and Pool)

Start Xephem

•     - In the "Xephem" virtual desktop (mrt-lx4:0.0) open the xephem sw.
      - All the .edb files for the different projects should be available from there.

Open the pool database sessions in mrt-lx7:0.1

•     - Ih the virtual desktop "DB Pool" and "DB LST" open a mozilla web broswer and logon to the IRAM  database with the account: observer/passwd (ask operator or AoD for passwd)
      - Open in the virtual desktop "BoloLog"  a pool database and the automatic BoloLog for bolometer observations.
      - If the observations are heterodyne, open the PakoLog sheet (OpenOffice) according to the project.

Start the Mopsic monitoring

•      - Go to the virtual desktop "Mopsic Monitor" in mrt-lx7:0.1 
       - In a terminal connect to: > ssh flexible@mrt-lx3 (ask for paswd)
       - > cd monitor
       - > mopsic @monitor  (should appear in mrt-lx10:0.1). WARNIG: if a fits file is corrupted, it stops. Just restart it
       - In mrt-lx7:0.0 in the virtual desktop "MonitorAcc" open a terminal and connect to: > ssh flexible@mrt-lx3 (ask for paswd)
       - > cd monacc
       - > mopsic @monacc (start a monitor to check possible acceleration problems with the bolometer).
       - In the "Mopsic" virtual desktop you can open a mopsic session at flexible@mrt-lx3 and > cd monitor; mopsic  (Useful to reduce pointing and focus)

Meteo Monitoring

•      - In the virtual desktop "Taumeter" and "Meteosat" in mrt-lt70.0 open the monitor at the URI:
         - http://mrt-lx2.iram.es/tau/taumeter.html
         - http://www.inm.es/web/infmet/satel/sespan.html

Start Mira & Mopsic

•     Mira:
      - Open a pako terminal in the pool account.
      - cd mira
      - mira
      - mira> @init  ! Look at the Mira manual then.
     
      Mopsic:   
      - Open a pako terminal in the pool account
      - ssh flexible@mrt-lx3  (Ask the Operator or AoD for the password)
      - mopsic      ! look at the Mopsic cookbook then.   Don´t open Mopsic inside the monitor directory if another Mopsic is running there; when 2 mopsics are running at the same time in this directory, it cause some problems. To avoid this, a link of the imbfitsDir was created in the flexible home directory.

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