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Dashboard

Liam edited this page Nov 7, 2018 · 12 revisions

The dashboard occupies the top left-hand corner of the IBEX GUI. It provides a brief summary of the current status of the instrument.

The top part of the dashboard shows the name of the instrument to which the IBEX GUI is connected and the current state of the instrument, along with the current Run number and the state of the instrument shutter.

The bottom part of the dashboard summarises the current experiment title and users. At the lower left, the dashboard displays information on good frames vs raw frames, the beam current and monitor counts. At the lower right, the dashboard displays the current instrument time, the length of the current run and the period.

Additional notes

  • The instrument time is the date/time measured by the clock on the instrument control PC. It might not be the same as the time displayed on your PC or other electronic devices (e.g. your phone).
  • The users displayed include PIs and users, but not contacts

Dashboard States & Colours

The meanings of the dashboard states and colours are:

State Background Colour Meaning
RUNNING LIGHT_GREEN DAE is collecting data
SETUP LIGHT_BLUE DAE is read to begin a run
PAUSED RED DAE has been paused by a script or user
WAITING DARK_YELLOW DAE is not collecting data and is waiting for a run controlled variable to come into range
VETOING DARK_YELLOW A veto is active and data is not collected
ENDING BLUE A run is has been ended and the data is being written (it will change to setup when done).
PAUSING DARK_RED DAE is about to be in the paused state
BEGINNING GREEN DAE is starting a run
ABORTING BLUE DAE run is being aborted
RESUMING GREEN DAE is resuming after being paused
PROCESSING YELLOW DAE is setting up
UPDATING YELLOW  
STORING YELLOW  
SAVING YELLOW  
UNKNOWN YELLOW  
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