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Hi Neil, Our previous Microsoft Azure grant expired so the edex-azure server is not available right now, but we will be releasing 14.4.1 soon (July or August) and will offer a new cloud EDEX server at that time. -Michael > Standalone CAVE install on CentOS 6.6. as a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion > on an iMac at OS X 10.8.5; the VM is allocated 16GB RAM. > > Startup with http://edex-azure.unidata.ucar.edu:9581/services and site: OAX > fails with > 'unable to post request to server' and details: > > com.raytheon.uf.viz.core.exception.VizCommunicationException: unable to post > request to server > ... > Caused by: com.raytheon.uf.common.comm.CommunicationsException:Error occured > communicating with server: Connect to edex-azure.unidata.ucar.edu:9581 timed > out. Hit retry limit, aborting connection. > ... > Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: Connect to > edex-azure.unidata.ucar.edu:9581 timed out > ... > > The VM is getting a NAT'ed network access from the VMware Fusion/OS X system. > The 'hostname' command on this VM returns localhost.localdomain, but an ssh > login to a remote host from this VM shows in the remote logs to be coming > from an IP in the *.met.tamu.edu domain. > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TFF-715714 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open