Title :
CATER: an online problem tracking facility for SLC
Author :
Sass, Robert C. ; Shoaee, Hamid
Author_Institution :
Linear Accel. Center, Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
An online facility has been developed for SLC to organize and simplify the management of all problems encountered in the operation of the accelerator. CATER (Computer Aided Trouble Entry and Reporting) may be used to make the initial entry of a problem, to enter one or more solutions to a problem, to modify or closeout a problem, to generate a variety of pre-defined reports giving status and statistical summaries, and to allow anyone to browse the database. All phases of CATER can take place on the operator console, workstations, or on any ANSI compatible terminal. The user interface is designed around a menu driven windowed environment with a large amount of context sensitive help information to alleviate the need for consulting user documentation. Currently, the CATER database contains information on more than 30,000 problems entered since it went online in January of 1988. The features of the software and some implementation details are presented
Keywords :
electron accelerators; failure analysis; graphical user interfaces; linear accelerators; online operation; operating systems (computers); physics computing; CATER; CATER database; Computer Aided Trouble Entry and Reporting; SLC; context sensitive help information; menu driven windowed environment; online problem tracking facility; operator console; statistical summaries; user interface; workstations; Contracts; Documentation; Hardware; Linear accelerators; Software systems; Spatial databases; User interfaces; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1203-1
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1993.309186
