List of Watcher Alarms

This page provides a comprehensive list of all available alarms in the Watcher CSC. Each alarm is designed to monitor specific conditions and trigger alerts when those conditions are met.

Camera Alarms

ATCameraDewar - Monitor ATCamera dewar temperatures and vacuum.

CameraSeverity - Enum that represents CCCamera severity levels.

MTCameraAlert - Monitor the MT Camera alertRaised events.

Environmental Alarms

DewPointDepression - Check the dew point depression.

Humidity - Check the humidity.

Hvac - Monitor HVAC SAL topics for any alarming states.

MTAirCompressorsPressure - Monitor the pressure reported by two compressors.

MTM1M3Temperature - Monitor M1M3 mirror temperature.

MTMirrorTemperature - Monitor the mirror temperature of main telescope M2 is out of the normal range.

MTTangentLinkTemperature - Monitor the tangent link temperature of main telescope M2 is out of the normal range.

OverTemperature - Check for something being too hot, such as hexapod struts.

UnderPressure - Check for low pressure.

Power System Alarms

PowerGeneratorFail - Monitor the power generators (ESS_agcGenset150) for any triggered main failure.

PowerGeneratorRunning - Monitor the power generators (ESS_agcGenset150) to alert users they started running.

PowerOutage - Monitor the PDUs for signs of a power outage.

MT Dome Alarms

MTDomeCapacitorBanks - Monitor the MTDome capacitor banks for any alarming states.

MTDomeSubsystemEnabled - Monitor the MTDome subsystem Enabled events for any alarming states.

Main Telescope (MT) Alarms

MTAirCompressorsState - Monitor the summary state of the two MTAirCompressor instances.

MTCCWFollowingRotator - Check that the MT camera cable wrap is following the camera rotator.

MTForceError - Monitor the actuator force error of main telescope M2 is out of the normal range.

MTHexapodOvercurrent - Rule to monitor the main telescope hexapod overcurrent event.

MTM1M3ThermalFans - Monitor M1M3 mirror thermal fans.

MTMountAzimuth - Monitor MTMount azimuth.

MTOutClosedLoopControl - Monitor the main telescope M2 is out of the closed-loop control.

MTTotalForceMoment - Monitor the total force and moment of main telescope M2 is out of the normal range.

MTVibrationRotator - Monitor the main telescope vibration event based on the rotator detection.

System Alarms

Clock - Monitor the system clock of a SAL component using the ``heartbeat`` event.

Enabled - Monitor the summary state of a CSC.

Heartbeat - Monitor the heartbeat event from a SAL component.

ScriptFailed - Monitor the status of the ScriptQueue.

Telemetry - Monitor the presence of telemetry from a SAL component.

Other Alarms

ATeStop - Monitor the AT eStop.

GenericBoolean - Monitor any SAL topic for any boolean attributes being True or False.

For more detailed information about each alarm’s implementation, configuration options, and behavior, please refer to the linked API documentation.