Monitoring Tasks

task	frequency	who NOW (starting Aug '14)	who Aug '13 - Jul '14	who before
from qateam cron
ask Galt/Jim about blat updates	3x per year		Pauline, Steve, Jonathan	Pauline, Steve, Jonathan
Respond to items on the broken links report: Check to make sure that broken links reported are actually broken. If so, fix the link if it is clear what the new link should be and push to the RR. If not, contact the appropriate person at the web site in question to find out what the new link should be.	daily		Matt	Steve
Respond to the trackDbGlobal report: Make public and request a push of trackDb and friends for any assemblies that show up as changed in the trackDbGlobal report.	weekly		Luvina	Steve
receive output from hgTracksRandom cron; alert admins to problems	as needed		many: kuhn, pauline, katrina, brianlee, braney, luvina, gary, ann, steve, jcasper, matt	many: kuhn, rhead, pauline, katrina, brianlee, braney, luvina, gary, ann, steve, jcasper
receive output from gbLoaded cron job and alert braney if anything seems very outdated	daily, problems every 3-6 months		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive output from showProcesslist.csh	daily, no action		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
get output from checkTableStatus.csh on Mondays (this is a report on whether the genbank table dumps are up-to-date...if we could get rid of our dependence on those, we could get rid of this cron job)	weekly		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
get an email from backupCentral.csh each month (there's a redmine ticket on whether we should change this one: http://redmine.soe.ucsc.edu/issues/7834)	monthly		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive an email on additions and subtractions to files in /gbdb on hgnfs1	daily		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive an email from cron if qateam DailySandboxUpdate fails	daily		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive output from checkMetaAday.csh; alert (steve, jcasper) if anything is out of sync (compares hgcentralbeta to hgcentral for db of the day)	daily		Matt	Luvina
receive output from syncAday.csh; alert (steve, jcasper) if anything is out of sync (checks that tables are in sync between beta and RR for database of the day)	daily		Brian	Luvina
get output from checkGenomeMysql	daily		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
from build cron
receive cron output for tableDescriptions build errors	rare		Pauline, Matt	Brooke, Pauline
from galt's cron
run ReleaseLog script (this requires a copy of the kent repository)	daily	Galt	Galt (if QA takes this over, Pauline will do it)	Galt
back up the qapushq	every 30 minutes during the work day/week	Galt	Galt	Galt
from braney's cron
braney has a cron that runs /cluster/bin/x86_64/hubPublicCheck and complains when the hubPublic table doesn't have the same strings as the actual hub.txt file. This should be claimed by a QAer and transferred to the qateam cron.	runs weekly, complains rarely?		Brian Lee	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/omim/omimWrapper.sh that checks for new OMIM data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains bi-weekly		braney	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/omim/omimUploadWrapper.sh that uploads the OMIM tables to OMIM	runs weekly, complains rarely		braney	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/decipher/decipherWrapper.sh that checks for new DECIPHER data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains monthly		braney	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/isca/iscoWrapper.sh that checks for new ISCA data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains monthly		braney	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/gwas/gwasWrapper.sh that checks for new GWAS data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains quarterly		braney	braney
braney has a cron that runs /hive/data/outside/otto/geneReviews/geneReviewsWrapper.sh that checks for new GeneReviews data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains quarterly		braney	braney
from ann's cron
Ann has a cron that sends a reminder to check the list of folks who have mirror sites. This list is created by a script of Hiram's and located here: http://genome-test.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/tools/useCount.html. The information comes from the phoneHome program in the CGIs. Sometimes companies set up mirrors, which is not OK.	monthly		Pauline	Ann
non-cron jobs
Check old forum (http://redmine.soe.ucsc.edu/forum/index.php) for MLQs that may have slipped through the cracks: Check to make sure that the last response for every ticket came from one of us. If not, look it up in redmine to ensure that A) there is indeed a redmine ticket for it, and B) it has been responded to. If not, notify the appropriate MLM with as much information about the MLQ as possible.	weekly		Luvina	Steve
update sla.html whenever we have RR downtime	hopefully, not much!		Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Pauline
update crontab in genecats/qa/crontabs/*.crontab (and log in as qateam and restart the qateam crontab with updates)	as needed		Pauline, Jonathan	Brooke, Pauline
update UCSC Entrez LinkOut when necessary. Entrez LinkOut sends requests for changes (and statistics) to the browser-qa email address	rarely		Bob	Ann
ENCODE
Check genome-preview with Selenium test, ensures various big ENCODE tracks are accessible, and that machine is still running	weekly	Brian	Brian	Brian
Receive validation checks on ENCODE cv.ra metadata, but won't change unless cv.ra changes	rare/never	Brian	Brian	Brian
Update broken links from cron on hgEncodeVocab/cv.ra checkLinks	rare, fixes needed about once a month	Brian	Brian	Brian