Shift time period in Asian Zone

• 0:00am~8:00am CERN summer time ( 6:00~14:00 Beijing time )
• 8 hours' shift
• 0:00am~8:00am CERN summer time ( 7:00~15:00 Beijing time )
• 8 hours' shift

Sign up and confirm your shift

• To sign-up for CSP shifts, please click here and login with your Nice account

- click any "green" button according to the shift(s) of your choice
- un-click any "blue" button (the fact that blue buttons get automatically checked is a system error)
- click the "save" button to save your booking

• You can view the current Shift table at http://cmsonline.cern.ch/portal/page/portal/CMS%20online%20system/Shiftlist/monthly?shift_type=25
• The approval of you shift subscription might take a few days, at which point you should see it confirmed on the monthly view. If not, please contact Peter.Kreuzer@cern.ch
• If you have problems to login to the online shift server or if there are problem with your browser to save the changes you make, then contact frank.glege@cern.ch

Reviewing the CSP task list before you start your first shift

• the task list of CSP:
  https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/CSPTaskList#Instructions_for_a_CSP_shift

Learning how to use the EVO connection to the outside world during your shifts

• The rules of using EVO connection:
  • switch on the video for CMSROC@Beijing at startup of your shift, and switch off the video for CMSROC@Beijing at the end of your shift.
  • This is REALLY important, since CERN have other remote shifters around the world, however have only 1 quarter of the big MCU screen reserved for CSP shifts, so if we keep the video of ROC@Beijing open, it will block the MCU screen access to other or making their picture smaller on the MCU.

• How to switch on or off the video for CMSROC@Beijing:
  • The only thing you need to do is to click the video mode in EVO (a small camera images in EVO), which is located in the right big screen of the shift room on the wall, to switch on or off the video for CMSROC@Beijing.

Fast Procedure for daily computing shift

• switch on the video for CMSROC@Beijing at startup of your shift in order to open the connection to the outside world
• at start of shift post short message in the Shift Reports(sub-elog of the CMS Elog) to say you began your shift (you may want to subscribe)
• through your shift keep an AIM client open for account FacOpsShifter. See instructions
• go through the plan of the dayand the shift summary of last shifter
• go through the checklist about once every 2~3 hours (3 times in your shift)
• write the check results into corresponding parts on the CMS Elog
• post a shift summary in the Shift Reports (sub-elog of the CMS Elog) at the end of your shift, disconnect from AIM and be sure that you logged out from all of the sub logbooks from the ELOG.
• switch off the video for CMSROC@Beijing at the end of your shift in order to close the connection to the outside world

Notes and Contacts

• In case you leave the CMS CC please be sure that you keep a message in CSP AIM saying that you will be available via a telephone number and/or via another AIM ID in the next hours before your next checklist starts.
• If you met problems, the full list of expert/shift contacts is available here

Further detailed and information

• Further information please go to https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/ComputingShifts

-- ZhangXiaomei - 2009-08-12