Scheduling and Running Manual Scan Tasks

You can insert manual tasks in the schedule the same way as other scan types, except that antenna control is not automatic.

For interactive manual scans, use the Real time display and the Antenna utility to have interactive control and feedback. IRIS does not take a noise sample before running a manual scan. For more information, see IRIS and RDA Utilities Guide (M211316EN).

  1. Add the task to the schedule:

    In most cases, use a manual scan task on an ad hoc basis.

    To prevent the manual scan task from interfering with regularly scheduled tasks:

    • Set Stop to None so the scan can work at any time of day.
    • Set Repeat to None.
    • Set Mandatory to Non-mandatory, so it does not interfere with mandatory scans such as a regularly scheduled volume scan.
    • Set Skip to Yes so that if it is preempted, it does not run.
    • Set State to Idle so it does not start automatically.

    For information on configuring a manual scan, see Antenna and Radar Control.

  2. To run the scan, select one of the following:
    • TSC Monitor > Go Schedule
    • TSC Monitor > Go ASAP

    Go Schedule and Go ASAP delay the start of the task according to the Repeat settings. If Repeat is set to None, the commands have the same effect.

  3. If the TASK configuration is set to Continuous, stop the task with the Halt command.

    In most cases, set the task configuration to Continuous, especially for interactive scans with the real time display and the Antenna utility.

    If the task configuration is set to Non-Continuous, the task stops automatically after it has collected the prescribed number of data rays (up to 720).