I think the reason I am unable to engage the de-whitening is that the OL loop is injecting a ton of control noise - see Attachment #1. With the OL loop off (i.e. just local damping loops engaged for the ITMs), the RMS control signal at 100Hz is ~6 orders of magnitude (!) lower than with the OL loop on. So turning on the whitening was just railing the DAC I guess (since the whitening has something like 60dB gain at 100Hz).

The Oplev loops for the ITMs use an "Ellip15" low-pass filter to do the roll-off (2nd order Elliptic low pass filter with 15dB stopband atten and 2dB ripple). I confirmed that if I disable the OL loops, I was able to turn on the whitening for ITMY smoothly.

Now that the ETMY OL HeNe has been replaced, I restored alignment of the IFO. Both arms lock fine (I was also able to engage the ITMY Coil Driver whitening smoothly with the arm locked). However, something funny is going on with ASS - running the dither seems to inject huge offsets into the ITMY pit and yaw such that it almost immediately breaks the lock. This probably has to do with some EPICS values not being reset correctly since the recent slow-machine restarts (for instance, the c1iscaux restart caused all the LSC RFPD whitening gains to be reset to random values, I had to burt-restore the POX11 and POY11 values before I could get the arms to lock), I will have to investigate further.

GV edit 2pm 31 May: After talking to Koji at the meeting, I realized I did not specify what channel the attached spectra are for - it is  C1:SUS-ITMY_ULCOIL_OUT.