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	Steve, Jonathan	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	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	Matt	Luvina	Steve
receive output from hgTracksRandom cron; alert admins to problems	as needed	many: kuhn, katrina, brianlee, braney, luvina, gary, ann, steve, jcasper, matt	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receive output from gbLoaded cron job and alert braney if anything seems very outdated	daily, problems every 3-6 months	Steve, Jonathan	Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive output from showProcesslist.csh	daily, no action	Steve, Jonathan	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	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	Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive an email on additions and subtractions to files in /gbdb on hgnfs1	daily	Steve, Jonathan	Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
receive an email from cron if qateam DailySandboxUpdate fails	daily	Steve, Jonathan	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	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	Brian	Luvina
get output from checkGenomeMysql	daily	Steve, Jonathan	Steve, Jonathan	Brooke, Steve, Jonathan
hubPublicCheck complains when the hubPublic table doesn't have the same strings as the actual hub.txt file.	runs daily, complains rarely?	Brian Lee	Brian Lee	braney
omimWrapper.sh checks for new OMIM data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains bi-weekly	Brian Lee	braney	braney
omimUploadWrapper.sh uploads the OMIM tables to OMIM	runs weekly, complains rarely	Brian Lee	braney	braney
decipherWrapper.sh checks for new DECIPHER data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains monthly	Luvina	braney	braney
iscoWrapper.sh checks for new ISCA data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains monthly	Steve	braney	braney
gwasWrapper.sh checks for new GWAS data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains quarterly	Jonathan	braney	braney
geneReviewsWrapper.sh checks for new GeneReviews data and downloads and loads it into hgwdev if so	runs weekly, complains quarterly	Matt	braney	braney
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	Matt	Pauline	Ann
from build cron
receive cron output for tableDescriptions build errors	rare	Steve, Luvina	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
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	Luvina	Steve
update sla.html whenever we have RR downtime	hopefully, not much!	Steve, Jonathan	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	Jonathan	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	Matt	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