1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 PURPOSE 1 1.2 SCOPE 1 1.3 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 1 1.4 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 1 1.5 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 1 1.6 GLOSSARY 2 1.7 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 2 2 USER'S GUIDE 5 2.1 OVERVIEW 5 2.2 STARTING BOB UP 5 2.3 CONFIGURING BOB 7 2.4 BOB'S PREFERENCES 11 2.5 LOADING AND SAVING OB-DESCRIPTIONS 12 2.6 RUNNING AN OB 13 2.7 RULES, TIPS AND TRICKS FOR TEMPLATE SCRIPTS 15 2.7.1 Template calling procedure / access to variables 15 2.7.2 Communication and logging 16 2.7.3 Aborting a running template script 18 2.7.4 Return values 19 2.7.5 Library scripts 19 2.7.6 Search paths 20 2.8 SIMULATION 21 2.8.1 Internal simulation 21 2.8.2 External simulation 21 2.9 STATUS RETURNED 21 2.9.1 Observation Block Events 21 2.9.2 Template Events 22 2.10 ENGINEERING INTERFACE 22 2.11 PROGRAMMATIC ACCCESS 24 2.11.1 Commands 24 2.11.2 bobWish 26 2.12 MOBS AND GENERIC TEMPLATES 27 2.12.1 What MOBS and Generic Templates are 27 2.12.2 The MOBS Engineering Interface Editor 27 2.12.3 The Generic Template Script 29 2.12.4 An example acquisition template script for MOBS 29 2.13 TECHNICAL TEMPLATES 30 2.14 PARAMFILE KEYWORDS 32 2.15 SNAPSHOTS 32 3 TROUBLESHOOTING 35 3.1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 35 3.1.1 Installation 35 3.1.2 Start-up 35 3.1.3 Template scripts 36 3.1.4 Template signature files 36 3.1.5 Sounds 37 3.1.6 FITS header information 37 3.1.7 Operational states 38 3.1.8 Engineering mode 38 4 REFERENCE 41 4.1 ERROR MESSAGES 41 4.1.1 OB/Template creation 41 4.1.2 OB/Template editing 48 4.1.3 OB execution 48 4.1.4 Selecting/Loading of OBs or .obd files 51 4.1.5 Various 52 4.2 MANPAGES 54
