QuickStart Instructions for the Auto QA Browser - Run 8
- Go to the STAR Computing Offline QA home page (from the STAR Home Page select
"Computing" in the left panel, then select "Offline QA" or go directly to the
"Offline QA home page"
and open the Auto QA browser by clicking on the "Automated Offline
QA Browser" button in the upper portion of the page.
- If the browser fails to open
contact the
"QA Experts" ASAP. If you cannot get
to the Auto QA browser then you are S.O.L.
- Enter your RCF login name.
- Generally you should follow the menu on page 2. Buttons 1.1 and 2.1
direct you to pages where Real Data Production jobs
and Fast Offline Production jobs can be selected.
Note that for Run 8 the Offline QA shift crew are only responsible for the fast-offline production.
- For Real Data Production (Button 1.1) you will typically want to filter out
previously reviewed jobs and select all other run numbers for production within the
past 24 hours. Queries can be made based on QA status, run number or date, and
software production version.
- For the Fast Offline Production QA (Button 2.1) select the most
recent run numbers which have not yet been QA reviewed.
Other queries are available as explained above. At a minimum please examine
QA histograms for each trigger set for at least one file sequence per
run number. Do more if you have time.
- Once you select a job to examine the QA shift or full set of QA histograms
may be selected. Generally the smaller, "QA shift" set of histograms will
suffice however you may need to examine the full set of QA plots in order
to better diagnos a suspected problem.
The postscript and/or pdf files are generated on the fly
and displayed on your terminal. Generally it is best to have the QA shift
report web form open in a different window so that you can fill it out as
you check each set of histograms, job-by-job. Please follow the instructions
on the QA shift web forms and supply all requested information about
yourself and the jobs you have examined.
- Sample QA shift histograms from Run 7 (Au-Au)
are in the
Description of Offline QA Shift
Histograms for Run 7. Reference QA
Histograms for Run 8 d-Au at 200 GeV
are now available.
You
should become familiar with the QA Shift plots and have some idea of what to
expect before taking your shift.
- Be sure to select the "MARK" button on the page for each job examined
and reported.
- After completing all the listed jobs add whatever comments you think are
useful and appropriate to the QA Shift Report.
Be sure to include a useful summary
for Fast Offline Data that will be helpful to the shift crew, i.e. report
any changes from the previous day including new problems or resolution of
old problems. Note that the QA Issues mechanism of the web based QA shift reportform automatically monitors day-to-day changes
in these issues and lists them in the QA shift report summary that is mailed to starqa-hn.
- MOST IMPORTANT!!! If you suspect any problem with the detector(s),
calibrations, reconstruction or production you must contact the appropriate
expert(s). This is the basic reason for having the Auto QA system and
these dedicated shifts. The experts may be contacted via either
the "QA Experts" or
"Other Experts" web pages.
- Complete your QA Shift Report and submit it. The ASCII text version
will be emailed to 'starqa-hn'.
- Links to QA documentation, contacts, the Rcas/LSF monitor, Online
Run Log, and the QA shift report web form are available from Page 2.
- Finally, you are done for the day; go get some rest!
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Last modified: Jan 11, 2008