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Hi again Justin, Oops, the meeting I thought I had to run to is on Thursday... I put together a compressed tar file of the latest version of the GEMPAK GRIB tables used by 'gribinsert' for you to grab: machine: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu user: anonymous pass: address@hidden directory: pub/gribinsert file: tables_1_4_1.tar.gz Here is what you should do to upgrade ncep-ldm2.woc.noaa.gov with these tables: <as 'ldm'> cd ~ldm/etc mkdir tables_1_4 cp *.tbl tables_1_4 ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu <user> anonymous <pass> address@hidden cd pub/gribinsert binary get tables_1_4_1.tar.gz quit rm *.tbl && tar xvzf tables_1_4_1.tar.gz ls -alt *.tbl Comments: - you will note that a number of the tables provided are actually links to other versions of the same tables. Not to worry. - if there is a 'gribinsert' instance running when you update the tables it may or may not read/use new entries. Subsequent 'gribinsert' invocations, however, will. The reason that a running 'gribinsert' may or may not use the new table entries is that it reads a table and then uses that information for as long as it continues to run _except_ when a different table of the same kind (e.g., g2varsncep1.tbl instead of g2varsncep0.tbl, etc.) is indicated by items in the GRIB file being processed. - our NOAAPort ingest package uses the same set of GEMPAK tables as 'gribinsert'. I upgraded one of our NOAAPort ingest machines yesterday afternoon with the new tables and then took a look to see if there were any "unknown" fields this morning -- unfortunately there were a few (4). This means that I will be making further modifications to the GEMPAK GRIB tables in the coming days. - the switch to a new set of tables should have _no_ effect on the number/volume of data being inserted into the LDM queue. 'gribinsert' uses the GEMPAK tables to create descriptive LDM/IDD Product IDs that end users can key on in ldmd.conf REQUEST and pqact.conf pattern-action lines. If GRIB table information can't be found for a product being processed by 'gribinsert', a error/warning is issued in its log file and the product is inserted with a not quite so descriptive Product ID; it is _not_ discarded. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SBB-325304 Department: Support CONDUIT Priority: Normal Status: Closed