Automatic user configuration

Automatic user configuration

Some details of this process are not yet clear to me but...

When an experiment is approved by ... and scheduled by instrument scientist, User office assigns a user with his/her federal ID, which allows user to access ISIS network including isiscompute servers and provides appropriate information to [Catalog service], giving the user rights to access the data in the catalog. At some stage(what stage?) special information file, which defines the participants of the experiment and the scientists who have access to the data of this experiment is placed on the internal server [should the address be public?] where it is accessed and automatically processed by issicompute configuration script [should the script be referenced here?]. The format of the file is .json and the sample contents is provided below.

The automatic isiscompute configuration script runs twice a day on isiscompue server processing the information file, creating user accounts and appropriate RB folders and giving users permissions to access their RB folders on the basis of the information file. Alex Buts and FBU IT support FBU IT support (Jeffs Warren) have access and can modify this script. At the final stage this script runs the Mantid configuration script for inelastic instruments, which configures user's Mantid to [access the data], [auxiliary instrument files] necessary to process these data and to provides users with [initial configuration scripts]. Alex Buts is responsible for maintaining this script.

Extract from .json file, extracted from the cataloge

{
"Last Updated": 20150413,
"experiments":
[
  {
   "RbNumber": "1234567",
   "Instrument": "MERLIN",
   "Cycle": "2013/4",
   "StartDate": "20131203",
   "Permissions": [
     {
       "email": "YYYY@stfc.ac.uk",
       "fedid": "XXXXX"
     },
     {
       "email": "warren.jeffs@stfc.ac.uk",
       "fedid": "gpq43739"
     },
     {
       "email": "alex.buts@stfc.ac.uk",
       "fedid": "wkc26243"
     }
   ]
 },
 { "NEXT RB NUMBER""
 }