DPL-264 As a Team Leader (Tom) I would like to investigate AutoManual to establish what it does and if it is still needed? [C=M,V=3]

[TWJW-SANGER]

Description
A cursory examination of automanual shows it queries the MLWH table iseq_run_lane_metrics for the QC status of runs and posts this information to a SequenceScape endpoint.

I would like to establish:

• Check the automanual logs, when did automanual last call the SequenceScape API?
• Where is the QC information provided by the API call displayed in SequenceScape?
• Ask NPG if they are calling the SS API on automatic QC.
• Assuming NPG are calling the SS API on QC results, why is this needed for manual QC passes? (Are these NPG calls not being made on manual QC? Is there an ordering problem on the state field, i.e. it's set to passed and then set to something else....?)

Who the primary contacts are for this work
TW

[KatyTaylor]

We didn't update automanual for this story - https://github.com/sanger/deployment/issues/73

If it's found that automanual is something that's still used, consider making a new story to implement the above issue (zero downtime deployment) for automanual.

[SujitDey2022]

@TWJW-SANGER please can you help review the story and confirm if we need this story or if we can archive the same.

[TWJW-SANGER]

I have updated the acceptance criteria to make them more task based.
I think we still need to do this investigation if we are going to turn off AutoManual. There is a strong possibility it is related to something about the Heron process.