| SITE | Operator Cover | Lights-out Operation | Monitoring and Alarm Tools |
| FNAL | 24 x 7 In-house team | Under active consideration - question of possibly eliminating the night cover | NGOP for monitoring and alarms to the Operators; use of Remedy for trouble tickets |
| SLAC | None | Fully lights out | Remote system admin; monitoring with automatic alarms |
| BNL | 24 x 7 during runs; day shifts via operators, overnight via the experiments | No overnight cover when no beam | |
| Jefferson | None | Fully lights out | Use of tape robots plus monitoring via the mon tool with alarms to an on-call sys admin |
| RAL | 8 x 5 in-house team plus callout | Outside prime shift | Monitoring with alarms |
| IN2P3 | 70% cover by in-house team | Overnight only | Monitoring with alarms to the Operators |
| Caltech | Staff by day, Students at nights and weekends | Has been considered but rejected - centre too complex, equipment too special | Very little automation - budget concerns |
| NERSC | 24 x 7 In-house team | Considered but no easy, cheap solution found | Monitoring using netsaint and snmp with alarms |
| DESY Zuethen | Day shift cover, Mon to Frid | None | Monitoring with alarms |
| DESY Hamburg | Cover during day shift only | Operator on call out overnight | |
| CERN | 24 x 7 Outsource contract | Considered but no easy, cheap solution found | CNSURE for monitoring and alarms to the Operators, Remedy trouble tickets to sys admin team; use of tape robots |
| LAL | 08:00 to 22:00 weekdays; 09:00 to 18:00 weekends | None | Nagios |