Control Room Logbook Status September 28, 2007 Suzanne Gysin

Current CRL installations: September 25, 2007S.Gysin UserEntries D0653,000 Minos 67,000 MIPP28,000 MiniBooNE25,000 ILCTA3,300 Dark Energy Survey1,200 CMS Pixel1,200 HINS300 MINERVA40 SIPM30 SCIBOONE4 MuCool2 CMS HCALNA CryogenicsNA CMS PixelNA

Recent Developments: Last release one year ago Current release (this week): – Ability to attach a script to a form. Scripts are used to send alarms and collect error descriptions from forms. (request by Minos) – Memo pad feature. This is a feature in the AD e-log. A page with operating and emergency procedures. (requested by ILC) – Show entire entry thread when viewing one entry (request by Minos) – Replaced image buttons with text links (GUI improvements) – Replaced sort order of index page – Fixed a ‘page by fixed date’ bug September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Project Chatterbox a new logbook (or CRL on Steroids) New User Features: – Instantaneous word search (think Google) – Kerberos authentication – Discussion Threads - With titles and entry hierarchy – Internal database (eliminate the dependency on MySQL) – Wiki Syntax (rather than html) – User Interface: Refine the user interface to make it easier to configure on an individual and installation basis September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Project Chatterbox Better Infrastructure: – Deployment, Quicker and Easier deployment/configuration management. Deploy all that is needed in a war file. – Service, make it available as a service. CD provides web server. Upgrades and speed improvements are transparent to the user. – Support, FNAL users can request a logbook and admins can have it available within a few hours. – Open source (as FNAL permits), the logbook should become open source so that collaborations spanning countries can adapt it and contribute. September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Project Chatterbox As electronic logbooks have become critical to operations and the accepted norm, the users have sophisticated requests. Users no longer can or want to write a simple logbook of their own, users prefer a sophisticated, reliable, professional logbook, used by others at FNAL and familiar to the team members. Professional logbook essentials: – Expandable Architecture – Support – Current Technology September 25, 2007S.Gysin

The CRL is a good base. We have experience. What features are essentials and what is fluff. What is architecturally sound and what will fail. We have good will from the many CRL users A common logbook for all users at FNAL has the obvious benefits: Familiarity for users when changing projects Easily moving entries from one logbook to another Centralized support and web servers Centralized development We can provide an excellent, modern product based on the CRL that will fill the logbook needs for FNAL in the next decade. September 25, 2007S.Gysin Project Chatterbox

Chatterbox Users All current CRL users – Provide migration software for existing CRL entries All new experiments, from very large to tiny – Easy to deploy – No dependencies on a data base – All that is needed is Tomcat (or any container) and the war file – Small experiments will benefit – Already scales for large groups (D0 600,000 entries) Accelerator projects: ILCTA, NML, Project X – Designed for international collaboration – Web application following standards (any time, any where) – Fast server hosted by CD Accelerator Division: MCR We would like to offer it to the MCR to replace the MCS E-log. Their e-log is aging and will have to be replaced. Involve AD early in development feedback Migration software (we migrated 1000 AD entries to the ILC CRL) Any individual, group, team, collaboration at FNAL – Interested Alpha Testers: Minos, Minerva, ILCTA September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Chatterbox Status/Resources: Andrey Petrov (AD): – New data format: Verify able XML entries XSLT/CSS for display – Google speed searching (indexed) – Converted 50,000 CRL entries from D0 and tested fast searching – Hook for Kerberos authentication with IDDB – Elimination of MySQL (internal database) – War file deployment Suzanne Gysin (CD): – Developing what Andrey has done into a prototype that we can show and give our alpha testers – Implementing the CRL features Resources: – AD: 0.3 FTE (A.Petrov) one year – CD: 0.5 FTE (S.Gysin) one year September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Chatterbox Status: September 25, 2007S.Gysin

Summary: Project Chatterbox – New features Instantaneous word search (Indexed search) Kerberos authentication Discussion Threads Internal database Wiki Syntax User Interface – Better Infrastructure Simple Deployment Services Support – Users: Every team, collaboration, and individual at FNAL – Sophistication and commonality Meet the sophisticated needs of our users Become the standard, de-facto FNAL logbook Leverage commonality September 25, 2007S.Gysin