/CondDBDumperECAL

Primary LanguageC++

Tools for dumping CMS database payloads

Package contents

  • a conddb_dumper executable that can be used to dump (mostly ECAL) conditions in txt files from a given object-specific tag, with several options
  • a general plugin for dumping several conditions at the same time/run from a given Global Tag, via cmsRun + configuration file.
  • a general plugin for dumping ECAL events for closer inspection
  • some utilities developed for the monitoring of the ECAL laser monitoring corrections

Dumper list

  • conddb_dumper.cpp: self-explicative via the -h/--help options. Currently supported objects:
    • BeamSpotObjects
    • ESEEIntercalibConstants
    • ESGain
    • ESIntercalibConstants
    • EcalADCToGeVConstant
    • EcalChannelStatus
    • EcalClusterLocalContCorrParameters
    • EcalGainRatios
    • EcalIntercalibConstants
    • EcalIntercalibConstantsMC
    • EcalLaserAlphas
    • EcalPedestals
    • EcalTPGLinearizationConst
    • EcalTimeCalibConstants
    • EcalTimeOffsetConstant
    • RunInfo
  • lava_db.cpp: validate a tag of the ECAL monitoring corrections
  • lava_text.cpp: validate a set of ECAL monitoring corrections starting from a txt file with dumped-corrections
  • lava_db_compare.cpp: compare two tags of ECAL monitoring corrections, by matching the IOV of one tag to the closest IOV of the other tag
  • lava_db_cond.cpp: (superseded) for ECAL monitoring corrections, compare the content of a tag to the content of another tag, by matching the IOV of one tag to the closest IOV of the other tag
  • lava_db_dumpId.cpp: dump ECAL monitoring correction histories for a given set of DetId (or all of them)
  • lava_db2txt.cpp: convert the content of ECAL monitoring corrections to a txt file
  • merge_dump.cpp: merges different txt files of ECAL monitoring corrections with overlapping IOV into one single coherent txt file (N.B. does not need the CMSSW environment to work)

Dumper setup

Setup a working area for example in CMSSW_7_4_0_pre5. Any release >=7XY should work just fine, contact me in case not.

cmsrel CMSSW_7_4_6_patch2
cd CMSSW_7_4_6_patch2/src
cmsenv
git cms-init
git clone git@github.com:ferriff/usercode.git
git cms-merge-topic -u ferriff:ecal_calib_tools
cd usercode/
scram b

Example: how to dump an object from the default Frontier DataBase

conddb_dumper -O EcalIntercalibConstants -c frontier://FrontierProd/CMS_CONDITIONS -t EcalIntercalibConstants_2012ABCD_offline

Additional documentation