[AWIPS #MOM-689702]: Lightning data from local feed

Hi Tiffany. Option 2 worked! We fed it a file with two strikes + and - and it 
rendered just fine and was available in the USPLN menu option. And as you would 
guess we have one follow up question

When we ran ldmadmin pqactHUP we got a the following response. It was ambiguous 
so we couldn’t tell if it worked or not. So we just did an ldmadmin stop then 
start instead. What should you expect if it DIDN’T work?
Check pqact HUP with command "ldmadmin tail"
Hangup

You can close this ticket since this is working now and thank you for the many 
iterations to get to this point. With this we have all our real-time data 
working. I am going to float one more config question in a different email 
regarding default colors.

Pete


 -----Original Message-----
 From: Unidata AWIPS Support <address@hidden>
 Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:56 AM
 To: Manousos, Peter C <address@hidden>
 Subject: [EXTERNAL] [AWIPS #MOM-689702]: Lightning data from local feed
 
 > So LDM is working just fine. The fact that the data are storing in 
 > /awips2/data_store means LDM is doing everything it's supposed to. Next we 
 > need to look into EDEX. I don't 100% have the reasoning, but I think because 
 > "LIGHTNING" is a recognized header, even though we are using it as the 
 > original filename, that's what is being passed to EDEX instead of the new 
 > pqact-named filename. Since there's no regex match in 
 > /awips2/edex/data/utility/common_static/base/distribution/textlightning.xml 
 > for "LIGHTNING", it's not being recognized by EDEX and going into the 
 > "edex-ingest-unrecognized-files" log.
 > 
 > There are two options to solve this:
 > 
 > 1. edit the textlightning.xml distribution file and add an entry for 
 > LIGHTNING
 > 
 > <regex>LIGHTNING</regex>
 > 
 > OR
 > 
 > 2. change the name of the file that's being passed via pqinsert, and update 
 > the pqact entry to match that file
 > 
 > save the initial file as 20210928_1540.nldn
 > 
 > use the pqinsert command with the new filename:
 > pqinsert -v -l ./log.log -f LIGHTNING ./20210928_1540.nldn
 > 
 > update your pqact entry:
 > 
 > LIGHTNING .*/.*.nldn
 > FILE -close -edex /awips2/data_store/lightning/%Y%m%d%H%M.nldn
 > 
 > For ldm to pick up the pqact changes, run: ldmadmin pqactHUP
 > 
 > Then try your pqinsert. You may need to change the data inside your raw nldn 
 > file (ex. change to a different day) or else LDM or EDEX may think it's 
 > duplicate data.
 > 
 > The data will show up in the menu under USPLN (not NLDN)
 > 
 > 
 > I think option 2 is the safer option because if you're constantly storing 
 > new data as the same name (ex. LIGHTNING), that file may get overwritten 
 > before it's filed correctly.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Tiffany Meyer
 > AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
 > UCAR-Unidata
 > 
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