Control Room Logbook (CRL)

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Control Room Logbook (CRL)

• http//www-cpd.fnal.gov/CRL/
• Status Meeting
• Suzanne Panacek

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Project Drivers

• User feedback
• Users D0, Minos, CMS, MiniBoone, Computer
  Security, Mipp, Westing House, EGO
• Each installation has designated admin. Casual
  and frequent communication via email or phone.
• New ways to use the CRL
• The Web is the preferred way to use it. All new
  development is in the CRLW (CRL Web application).
  The desktop application is still available and
  provides the base code for the CRLW.
• The users have now a large archive of entries (D0
  400,000 entries). They want to categorize,
  organize, make lists, and link entries in their
  own context.
• Need for speed, and more speed, especially for
  retrieving and searching entries.
• New users outside the control room and outside
  FNAL
• Projects are using the CRL outside control room
  for keeping meeting notes or a log of any kind
  (computer security)
• Users outside of FNAL are interested. Savanna
  Westing house and EGO are using it.

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Deliverables

• Current deliverables
• Release about every other month
• Users Manual
• Web site
• Web server (crlweb) CRLW upgrades
• New web server to off load crlweb (current load
  max daily hits 25000, max daily data transfer 700
  MB)

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Future Deliverables

• Test CRLW with the latest release of Tomcat,
  Java, and Apache on new web server.
• Context building
• Speed improvements
• Indexing for searches - maybe
• Simplify installation and deployment
• Clarify licensing for international and
  commercial users.
• New users ILC ?

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Milestones

• Last 3 months
• Ability to move entries from one category to
  another
• Speed improvements
• Minor fixes such as buffer limits on forms (forms
  are getting more and more popular)
• Purchased new web server
• Resolved licensing for Savanna Westing House and
  made CRLW available on Fermi tools
• Installation at EGO (European Gravitational
  Observatory) in progress.
• Next 3 months
• Requirements and design for context building
• Speed improvements
• New web server
• New users (ILC?)

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Effort Profile

• People
• Suzanne Panacek development, documentation,
  upgrades on crlweb. 50.
• Etta Burns purchasing and installing the new web
  server. ?
• Ongoing program of work at about 30.

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Risk

• No major risks
• Minor Risk
• Upgrading to Tomcat 5 and Java 1.5 requires major
  changes in code.
• Speeding up the search and becomes very complex
  (can we use what the HEPBook is using?)