[SCHEDULER-1411]  Fixed Time + Monitor Mode = Confusion
Type Enhancement
Priority Low
Severity Trivial
Component Dispatch Scheduler Engine
Fixed In Version [8.2] 8.2
Versions Affected [8.0] 8.0
Severity Postponed
Resolution Unresolved
Reported By Bob Denny
Resources Bob Denny
Start Date 7/11/2018

Description 
If both Monitor Mode and Fixed Time are set for a Plan it gets requeued over and over and run over and over in the same night!






See attached Plan screen and resulting Scheduler engine log.

Comments
9/4/2018 9:12:32 AM   Bob Denny 
REOPENED







See this Comm Center thread by Colin Haig. Allow monitor interval to be in sidereal days. This won't helop things like CVs or exoplanet transits, but it will mean that a deep sky object will be at the same alt/az each monitored night instead of "walking" 4 minutes each night. Set to low priority and Postponed for now.
7/11/2018 5:48:04 PM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/scheduler
 

 

  SVN Revision
  677
 

 

  Affected files
  /trunk/Help/RelNotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/Engine.cs (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Advance time by monitor days if fixed time and monitor mode. Allows Monitor Mode on fixed time plans.
GEM:1411
7/11/2018 5:47:46 PM   Bob Denny 
This turned out to be tricky to test. Looking good.
7/11/2018 3:15:19 PM   Bob Denny 
This was a side effect of the engine re-queuing the Plan even after the Latest Time, then expecting it to fail. But with Fixed Time it got queued and ran all the time!!!! See SCHEDULER-1608.
7/11/2018 1:29:35 PM   Bob Denny 
This requires changes to the Scheduler web forms to enable monitor mode with fixed time. At present selecting monitor mode disables the times and the monitor field. See ACP-1607.
7/10/2018 11:08:37 PM   Bob Denny 
This needs to be done for GBO and maybe others. Advance the day by one when re-queuing for monitor.