Instructions for Tracker Validation

Sequence of actions:

cmsrel CMSSW_3_3_0_pre6
cd CMSSW_3_3_0_pre6/src
cvs co Validation/TrackerConfiguration
cd Validation/TrackerConfiguration/test/
./getHarvestedHistos.csh https://etc.
cd ../scripts
[edit filenames in TrackerValidationChain.csh]
./TrackerValidationChain.csh 

Normally you download the already harvested files from here: https://cmsweb.cern.ch/dqm/offline/data/browse/ROOT/RelVal

But if you have to do harvesting yourself, then you must do "step 3" of the relval testing with the corresponding input files. Example DBS query:

dbs --search --query='find file where dataset like /RelValSingleMuPt10/CMSSW_3_1_4-MC_31X_V3-v1/GEN-SIM-RECO'

In case the RECO step has to be redone, you also need "step 2", e.g.:

cmsDriver.py step2 -s RAW2DIGI,L1Reco,RECO,VALIDATION --relval 25000,100 --datatier GEN-SIM-RECO --eventcontent RECOSIM --geometry DB --conditions auto:mc --filein /store/relval/CMSSW_3_6_0_pre2/RelValSingleMuPt100/GEN-SIM-DIGI-RAW-HLTDEBUG/MC_3XY_V24_GeomDB-v1/0000/74D1A746-DC27-DF11-85C2-0030487CD77E.root

cmsDriver.py step3 -s HARVESTING:validationHarvesting --conditions FrontierConditions_GlobalTag,MC_3XY_V24::All --filein file:step2_RAW2DIGI_L1Reco_RECO_VALIDATION_DQM.root

The output of your validation is copied here:

/afs/cern.ch/cms/performance/tracker/activities/validation/

Then I must fill the tables in https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/SWGuideValidationTableReco and https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/SWGuideValidationTableSim, and send mails to hn-cms-trackerperformance@cern.ch and hn-cms-relval@cern.ch

Standard mail to hn-cms-trackerperformance@cern.ch:

Dear all,
at the page:
http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/performance/tracker/activities/validation/CMSSW_3_4_0_pre2/
you can find the validation of CMSSW_3_4_0_pre2 vs CMSSW_3_4_0_pre1 for the Tracker.

Andrea

Standard mail to hn-cms-relval@cern.ch:

Dear all,

here the results for tracker validation:
http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/performance/tracker/activities/validation/CMSSW_3_4_0_pre2/

Dataset used for validation:

  /RelValSingleMuPt10/CMSSW_3_4_0_pre2-MC_3XY_V10-v1/GEN-SIM-RECO

Requester group:
Tracker DPG

Remarks:
none

Validation status:
Success.

Cheers,
Andrea

In order to free disk space, very old harvesting rootfiles have to be gzipped and moved to castor; use this script:

cd Validation/TrackerConfiguration/scripts
./backup_and_free.csh CMSSW_3_1_1

To check whether there were changes in the software: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/TrackerDPGRelIntegration.

If there are changes to commit, one must follow the instructions in https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/RelValTesting and then submit the tag in the validation tag collector wiki and in the CMS tag collector (login, then "package publication").