Change Notice For Operations Manual
** All changes made to the Operations Manual as of 7/23/96 will be posted here
Monitoring Procedures for the Campaign Period have been added to the
Monitoring Section (7/29/96-EBZ)
Campaign Period MDI Flight Status Screen (screen 12) explanation has been
added to the Monitoring Section under Display Screen Explanations (7/29/96-EBZ)
The file Locations of Useful Information under Misc. Stuff now has the
location of instances on /mdisw added to it (7/29/96-EBZ)
The Guidelines for Out of Limits Conditions file has been removed since
the emergency procedures documents do the same thing (7/29/96-EBZ)
The Locations of Useful Information file under Misc. Stuff has be added to
(8/2/96-EBZ)
Under EOF Operations, a Routine Operations file has been added (8/8/96-EBZ)
Under Monitoring Information, changed Continuous Contact Monitoring
Procedures to upgrade the definition of the 5k status (CNF)
Added links to the bottom of the table of contents page. (CNF 17 Sep 96)
Add Chapter heading links at the beginning of the document to make
finding the sections a bit easier. (CNF 18 Sep 96)
Updated note on how to check on possible loss of telemetry
(CNF 15 Oct 96)
Changed a few words on Commanding in NRT under EGSE and Post Dynamics Mode
Operations Notes under Routine Operations under EOF Operations and I changed
the link for the Instance Generations form in several places (EBZ 18 Dec 96)
Added link to Log Entry Form under Operator Comment Logging under EOF
Operations (EBZ 19 Dec 96)
Changed Titles for the "EOF and Support Operations" and "FOT Procedures"
to match initial headings. I had made a mistake when I changed this before.
(CNF 21 Dec 96)
Added description of TLM Rate change Tstols to the FOT Procedures section.
(CNF 24 Dec 96)
Changed description of Unix, Jitter Test, Locations of Useful Information,
TSTOL Locations, and make_load sections and added Flat Field Procedures section
under Common Procedures (EBZ 25 Dec 96)
Changed General Monitoring to What to Monitor and edited the info inside,
linked Continuous Contact Procedures under FOT, linked Flat Field Patches to
Flat Field Procedures section, added Health and Cal Status link under
Monitoring Information, changed TLM Mode Transition TSTOLS section, changed
TSTOL Locations section (EBZ 26 Dec 96)
Changed Daily To Do List, General Monitoring, Unix (EBZ 27 Dec 96)
Edited Commanding in NRT and linked it in place of Routine Ops, edited
Running Campaigns, edited EGSE Basics (EBZ 2 Jan 97)
Added Magnetogram Downlink Info section under Common Procs, added
Momentum Management Procedures under Common Procs (EBZ 8 Jan 97)
Added Make A Chain List under EOF Operations (EBZ 10 Jan 97)
Added Set High Resolution Extract Location under Common Procs, OPSMONITOR
Program under EOF Operations, edited Commanding in NRT and Running Campaigns
(EBZ 11 Jan 97)
Changed all http://mdiems... URL's to be //mdiwww... URL's (EBZ 15 Jan 97)
Changed Instructions for Flat Field Patches to Instructions for All IP
Patches (EBZ 17 Jan 97)
Changed Magnetogram Downlink Info in Common Procedures to VC2 & Magnetorgram
Information and added it to FOT Procedures section also (EBZ 17 Jan 97)
Added a Monitoring Instructions section and removed the What to Monitor
section (EBZ and CNF 28 May 97)
Added link to Observers Manual section for a Link to Form Locations and
Summaries (EBZ 16 June 97)
Added link under EOF and Support Operations for Disk Purging Guidelines
(EBZ 17 June 97)
Took out documents on Campaign Period Monitoring and Continuous Contact
Monitoring since the Monitoring Instructions file incorporates information
from both of them (EBZ 14 July 97)
Added link under Observers Manual for MIAR form. Added explanation for
GSDR & MIAR Reports under EOF and Support Operations. Updated the IAP and
EGSE Basics files. (EBZ 29 July 97)
Added page under monitoring about limits (CNF 27 Aug 97)
Added MDI Planning Information link and MDISAS Cron Job Explanations link
under the EOF and Support Operations section (EBZ 16 Oct 97)
Edited Daily To Do List and IAP Generation explanations (EBZ 14 Nov 97)
Added new section to manual - Ground System and Software and added
cfl syncinc procedure explanation in it (EBZ 14 Jan 1998)
Added checkpoint explanation and updated cronjob explanation to GS&S
section (EBZ 15 Jan 1998)
Added mdicmd cronjob explanation to GS&S section (EBZ 16 Jan 1998)
Changed the limits database under FOT Procedures and added a link to
Monitoring Information. Changed the title of the limits monitoring info link
(EBZ 27 Jan 1998)
Added Public FTP Directory section to EOF Operations section (EBZ 12 Feb 98)
Updated EGSE section files, added EGSE Man Pages link and EGSE Readme Files
link (EBZ 13 Feb 98)
Added Telemetry Handling Section to GS&S section (EBZ 18 Feb 98)
Added Freeze/Unfreeze section to GS&S section (EBZ 23 Feb 98)
Added MDI Flight Mission Highlights section under Misc. and added
Common TCBLOCK Commands under FOT section (EBZ 2 Mar 98)
Modified Alignments Procedure, added On Board Memory Pages explanation
under GS&S, added Mirror/Msput section under GS&S (EBZ 17 Mar 98)
Added Framelist Generation document to GS&S and Common Procs (EBZ 27 Apr 98)
Edited the Setting Up Feature Tracking section (EBZ 13 May 1998)
Added Limits that cause Thermal Reconfiguration file under
Monitoring section (EBZ 12 Jan 1999)
Added OP Heater Settings file under Common Procedures section (EBZ 11 Feb 99)
Added Qproc Program file to the GS&S section (EBZ 13 May 1999)
Added Editing Crontabs file to GS&S section and changed the backup
tape info file (EBZ 7 July 1999)
Added Programs Joe Wrote for MDI section to GS&S (EBZ 14 July 1999)
Added programs Craig wrote section to GS&S (EBZ 20 July 1999)
Added Monsci5k section to GS&S, took out some comment lines in the
manual, deleted Set High Res Location and combined it with Set Up Feature
Tracking and changed the name to Set High Res Extract and Tracking (EBZ 28 July 1999)
Added mditlm Crontab file under GS&S and updated sas and cmd's also (EBZ 30 July 1999)
Changed Common TCBLOCK commands web page and added a link under EGSE (EBZ 24-Nov-99)