ESCS 0.4 CONFIGURATION AND SETUP

Welcome to the documentation of escs setup for Medicina radiotelescope. Escs is the Enhanced single dish control system which permits the radiotelescope to be used by astronomers in single dish observations. The system is the analogous of Nuraghe, installed at SRT and will be installed at Noto site as soon as possible enabling the same kind of operations in all italian radiotelescopes.

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. ESCS Version
  • 1.2. Subversion repository
  • 1.3. Documentation on Github
• 2. Machines
  • 2.1. escsMaster
    • 2.1.1. OS installation
    • 2.1.2. Additional software
    • 2.1.3. Users and Groups
    • 2.1.4. NIS
    • 2.1.5. ACS
    • 2.1.6. ACS Temporary Data
    • 2.1.7. NTP
    • 2.1.8. Firewall
    • 2.1.9. NFS
    • 2.1.10. DATA BACKUP
    • 2.1.11. DATA REMOVAL
    • 2.1.12. Finalizer
  • 2.2. escsCore1
    • 2.2.1. OS installation
    • 2.2.2. Additional software
    • 2.2.3. ACS Temporary Data
    • 2.2.4. NTP
    • 2.2.5. Firewall
    • 2.2.6. NIS
    • 2.2.7. NFS and AUTOMOUNT
  • 2.3. escsHost
    • 2.3.1. OS installation
    • 2.3.2. Additional software
    • 2.3.3. VirtualBox Services
    • 2.3.4. NTP and firewall
  • 2.4. escsRemote
    • 2.4.1. OS installation
    • 2.4.2. VNC Server
  • 2.5. escsCore2
    • 2.5.1. OS installation
  • 2.6. escsConsole
    • 2.6.1. OS installation
    • 2.6.2. IDL
      • 2.6.2.1. update from June 2017
    • 2.6.3. SDI and Quicklook
    • 2.6.4. Python
    • 2.6.5. GPFS
  • 2.7. roach-server-parabola
    • 2.7.1. OS installation
    • 2.7.2. Additional software
    • 2.7.3. Configuration
  • 2.8. escsStorage
    • 2.8.1. OS installation
    • 2.8.2. Additional software
• 3. Backup
• 4. GPFS cluster setup
• 5. Locations
• 6. Cabling scheme