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> Good Morning....We found the error causing the missing data. The supplied > pqact.main file was missing the "-edex" on the entries. This kept the data > from being sent to edex from LDM. > Hello, How do you have your EDEX system set up? Do you have a single standalone EDEX server, or a set-up more similar to the NWS, or more similar to the Unidata distributed setup (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/awips-tips-distributed-edex-architecture)? For a standlone set-up the default pqact file should actually be pqact.conf.priority which has all entries. The reason you don't see the -edex flag for some of the model data is because to improve performance, we've adjusted how we store and ingest model data. The pqact file writes multiple grib files to a single file in a staging area (hence the no -edex flag). There is a cronjob that should run as the awips user: */2 * * * * /bin/perl /awips2/ldm/dev/checkFileTime.pl >>/awips2/ldm/dev/logs/checkFileTime.log 2>&1 So if you are not noticing the data getting into EDEX, I suggest looking at the log file: /awips2/ldm/dev/logs/checkFileTime.log Can you send the output of that log to us? Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer NSF Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PYP-441804 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with NSF Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.