2025-12-04 Meeting notes

2025-12-04 Meeting notes

 Date

Dec 4, 2025

 Participants

  • @Josh Walawender@Carolyn Jordan @Preethi Krishnamoorthy @Kittrin Matthews @Rosalie McGurk @Grant Hill @Max Service @Greg Doppmann @Leo Alcorn @Josh Walawender @Jim Lyke John

  • @Percy Gomez @Michael Lundquist @sherry yeh @Randy Campbell

 Goals

 Brainstorm

 Discussion topics

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1:00

Words from Jim

Jim

  • Performance reviews due to HR by Friday

    • I think I’m waiting on Randy, Sherry, and Rosalie

    • I know JO is waiting on me

  • Outcall issues from Keck phones

    • Need a list of providers for SAs, SWoc, EEoc

    • Give heads up to OAs, daycrew, etc.

    • Problem seems to be primarily with T-Mobile and related providers

    • Interim solution is for OAs to call SA and SA calls SWOC

    • Symptom: rings 0-2 times, then disconnects

  • Pau Hana tomorrow for Liz, Leslie, Cindy

  • Please work on POCs and ticket responses

    • SA for the night is to lead ticket responses

  • Jim has protected dates for support. Will likely leave June/July undefined because of SPIE and other travel questions

1:09

Words from John

John

  • All staff on Wednesday of next week

  • Off to DC next week, try to secure FY26 NASA CAN $$

  • Will kick off 5 year planning process soon

  • John has ToOs, so if there are high priority things which come up, let him know

  • Waimea Twilight Parade coming Saturday, so be aware if on support

1:16

Instrument PMs

Grant

  • Renewed push to do PMs on instruments

  • Jacques is eager to see this resume

  • Grant has e-Maint account, no other SAs?

  • Many instruments have no PMs in database

  • If want to, can go up to the summit to work with Grant, Danny, AJ

  • Send Grant ideas on PMs for instruments

  • JW: would be good to see PMs on all instruments to get inspired

  • When e-Maint was put in place, the tasks from the old IPM database were ported over in bulk and assigned to Dennis

  • e-Maint has no aliases, so assigned to individual people

1:32

EPICS/comms issues on KPF/OSIRIS

Jim, Josh

  • intermittent symptoms: can’t see AO keywords

    • nuisance for KPF, big problem for OSIRIS

  • computer k1-epicsgateway had 2 IP addresses, this was likely problem

    • In principle if this is problem, it would affect dcs and acs keywords as well

  • waiting to see if this problem returns. Lots of KPF and OSIRIS in coming week.

  • New firewall watching internal traffic will see this as a problem, this firewall is new and we did not have a problem with similar situations before.

  • CLD verified that k2-epicsgateway is not configured this way.

1:40

zabbix

Jim

  • Computer support is deploying a network monitoring software called zabbix.

  • e.g. Deployed to kpf, kpfserver, kpffiuserver on Wednesday

  • Has caused problems on OA workstations

  • We can't kill it. In principle, SWOC can kill as root, but not sure if it will come back.

  • GD: how can we better increase communications with computer support.

    • Jim and Carolyn in meetings about this with that group.

    • Continue to submit IT help desk tickets.

    • Trying to connect day and night logs to IT help desk systems

1:50

SCALES Intro & Discussion

Andy & Rosalie

  • Presented summary of instrument with slides

  • Slicer needs to be recut (result of preshipreview)

  • Tip tilt sage is not moving properly

  • Will be state based control (like KCWI)

  • Has on board turbo pump, off during normal operations

  • Monochrometer is there to give PSF as function of wavelength

  • Will use up the ramp readout. Needs good DRP support.

  • KTL dispatchers use MUSIC (Will Deich authored them)

  • GUIs in python Qt

  • UI inspired by KCWI, but no configuration database

2:31

Pau!

 

Next Lead: @Greg Doppmann

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