Inutes of the meeting on alarm/warning notification system for the on-call held on Nov 19th, 09h30 (by V.Dattilo)
Partecipants:
M.D'Andrea, F.Carbognani, D.Soldani, E.Calloni, H.Heitmann, G.Hemming, 
I.Fiori, F.Gherardini, P.Popolizio, V.Dattilo, A.Pasqualetti

-Short presentation by VD on the status of the monitoring and automatic 
notification systems for the on-call service, and on possible solution 
to provide all the on-call services with a suitable one.  

- Most  of the EGO on-call services are already using a monitoring and 
automatic notification system. Unfortunately, there are 2 on-call 
services, Vacuum and Conditioning (AC), where such a system is currently 
missing or only partially adopted.
-Sometime the  lack of  proper notification to the on-call person 
doesn't allow to fix the problem at its initial phase, and the 
consequences (at least the downtime) are suffered by the ITF 
operation/commissioning activities. Examples are  the long thermal 
transient after a recover of some AC failure, or the last weekend 
consequences of the compressed air failure that affected the Vacuum 
system, the Suspensions and Locking.

- The most appropriate systems to be adopted by Vacuum and AC are:
    - the Infrastructure Technical Alarm (ITA) system, currently used by 
Massimo for the Electricity on-call.  It is a low level, commercial and 
reliable system, monitoring the analog status of the critical parts.  It 
is suitable for the monitoring and notification of the most critical 
part of the Vacuum and AC, for which also a risk of damage exist. The 
deployment of such a system requires also HW parts and time.  It is 
particularly important also for the safety of the equipment and it will 
be defined in detail among Infrastructure Dept (in particular Massimo, 
Pasquale, Antonio, Davide) and its implementation will start in the next 
months.
   - The Detector Monitoring System (DMS), currently used in Control 
Room and for the ITF Operation on-call. It is a home-made system, 
developed by EGO in collaboration with LAPP, it is mainly based on 
signals available from the Virgo DAQ. Its reliability is not 
particularly high, because depending on DAQ processes, on network and on 
other processes.  On th eother hand, it is particularly flexible and 
alarm criteria and notification mode can be easily and quickly 
configured. It is already interfaced with Vacuum and AC an therefore 
could be easily used for monitoring and automatic notification. It 
doesn't require additional HW and SW installation and  can be performed 
in a quite short time.  A strict collaboration is needed between OP 
Group and Infrastrucure Dept to define alarm criteria and configure the 
alarm notification.  It has been agreed that, starting from this wk,  VD 
and Fabio will see with Antonio the details for Vacuum and, separately, 
the details of AC with Davide and Pasquale.  We will start to alarm the 
most important parts and gradually the remaining ones.  The policy of 
intervention will be defined by the related on-call referent, taking 
also into account the requirements from Operation and Commissioning.  It 
is also clear that for the critical parts the DMS is not an alternative 
to the ITA. It is mainly complementary and in some case redundant 
(redundancy is here positively accepted).

- DMS upgrade
- We agreed on the Franco's  proposal to dismiss the IMMS for the 
notification to the AC (mainly for maintenance reasons) and to focus  on 
DMS, also by exporting to it an important functionality of the IMMS (ie 
the feature to tune thresholds from any web-browser, particularly 
useful  for the on-call at home).  Gary will take care of this 
implementation.  The IMMS will be kept only as a data provider for the DAQ.
- The possibility to have web-browsable plots  from DMS will be better 
defined in the future, between EGO and LAPP.