Instrument Handbook
Welcome to the MagAO-X Instrument Handbook.
Table of contents
- Information For Observers
- Operation of the MagAO-X instrument
- Testbed Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Figuring out what exactly isn’t working
- Addressing specific issues
- Shared memory image problems with “No space left on device” errors
- Loop failing to close for no apparent reason and/or intermittent failures of CACAO calibration process
- Lockup / Missing GPUs /
nvidia-smi
errors - OCAM connectivity / bad data
- Alpao DM not responding
- DM Latency and Communication Troubleshooting
- EDT Framegrabber Problems (camwfs and camlowfs)
- Camsci1/2 not responding
- Killing INDI zombies
- Difficulties with NVIDIA proprietary drivers
- Handling Procedures
- Compute System
- Running MagAO-X from your own computer
- Python environments
- System Maintenance & Administration
- Networking
- Data Storage Management
- Instrument computer setup guide
- BIOS
- OS Installation
- After OS installation
- Configure
/data
array options - Setup ssh
- Setup network attached storage (NAS)
- AOC only: GPU drivers setup
- Perform (mostly) automated provisioning
- Perform
xsup
key management - Verify bootloader installation / RAID correctness
- Migrating data from a previous installation
- SSL Certificates
- Network Attached Storage
- Tailscale for secure connection tunnels
- Computer Architecture
- Appendices
Resources
magao-x/MagAOX on GitHub