Facility Overview

Introduction

The Facility Overview included with MyTardis allows facility administrators to monitor the output of connected instruments, highlighting unverified files, dataset size, file counts and file listings.

Setup

In order for datasets to appear in the Facility Overview, each dataset must be associated with an Instrument, which is itself associated with a Facility. The Facility object will reference a facility administrator’s group, members of which may view the Facility Overview.

   +-------------------+   +------------------------+   +----------+
   | Facility Managers |-->| Facility Manager Group |-->| Facility |
   +-------------------+   +------------------------+   +----------+
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|
|  +------------+   +----------+   +-----------+
|->| Instrument |-->| Datasets |-->| Datafiles |
   +------------+   +----------+   +-----------+
                          ^
                          |  +-------------+
                          |--| Experiments |
                             +-------------+

The facility managers, facility manager groups, facilities and instruments may be configured via the django admin interface. MyData, the desktop uploader client for the MyTardis server, can be configured to assign the appropriate instrument to uploaded datasets at the point of ingestion.

It should be noted that the dataset visibility within the facility overview is limited to dataset and datafile listings only. Access to the experiment and dataset views, as well as raw data, is still controlled via the ACL framework.

Usage

Members of the facility manager groups for one or more facilities will see the “Facility Overview” menu item in the MyTardis web portal. After opening the facility overview, a list of recently ingested datasets will be displayed from the facility being managed. If a user manages multiple facilities, a blue drop-down selector will also appear on the right-hand side of the page. As the facility overview is designed to give a snapshot of recently uploaded datasets, older data is not immediately accessible; MyTardis’ search feature is better suited to this.

In addition to simply listing the most recent datasets, the datasets can be grouped by instrument or by owner, and filtered by username, experiment name and instrument name. Note that while filters are active, it may appear as though no new pages are loaded by clicking “Load more”, since the additional datasets fetched from the server might not match the active filters.