Ticketing Flags

UHDAS has a ticketing system that automatically parses the daily email and the status files and prepends warnings and flags to the daily email. If you are a UHDAS Ticketing user, these are the flags that are automatically generated and presented in your daily email. Otherwise you have to scrutinize the files to find the problems.

Categories of automated warnings

(1) data quality

  • poor heading quality of accurate heading device

  • ADCP temperature spiking (impending instrument failure)

  • GPS time was repeated or stepped backwards

  • GGA messages are all commas

  • gaps in incoming data

(2) problems with acquisition or data feeds

  • expected process is not running

  • database is old (but should be up to date)

  • zmq_publisher.py should be running but is not

(3) instrument or processing settings

  • calibration out of spec

  • expected feed is missing

  • configuration file on ship does not match Master List

  • configuration file is internally inconsistent

  • incorrect ADCP settings

    • bottom track on in deep water

    • triggering results in too few pings

  • data from ADCP#1 is logged with ADCP#2’s settings

    • software configuration (eg. error during installation setup)

    • cables swapped

(4) networking, computer health

  • backup failed

  • disk not found

  • disk space running out

  • I/O error on disk

  • expected email did not come

  • problem with ntp time server

  • time server not used; computer clock drifted

  • processes taking too long

  • computer swapped (“spare” computer is logging data)

  • USB errors

  • other random errors (EDAC, URB)

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