Plotter Automation

[pieterhelsen]

Hi guys,

Wanted to pick the community's brain with regards to automating the plotting process. Right now I'm plotting mostly via the GUI, but obviously that becomes a little tedious, so I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with automating their workflow and how they went about doing that.

Some questions to get the discussion started:

• Do you or would you use a Python-based service to manage the process or do you just time out the plots with a crontab for instance?
• Do you check the progress of other plots to determine how many plots to run in parallel? If so, how do you do that? (as far as I can tell, there's no command line available to check on running plots)
• What about environment monitoring? Did you make it robust by checking your available disk space or any other system parameters?

Would love to hear the community's feedback on this!