Re: 19990309: LDM Feed

Jennie,

A quick test for your connection to an upstream site is to do a notifyme
to them, ie,

% notifyme -vl - -h <upstream host>

This tells you if they are receiving data also.  Another test is the
ldmping, ie

% ldmping -i 5 -h <upstream host>

Sometimes when you can't reach most of the upstream sites, it's usually a
local network problem. Do notify your campus network people when you are
having a problem, also tell them the destination host. They can tell you
the scoop locally or find out if it's an ISP problem.

Robb...



On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Unidata Support wrote:

> >To: address@hidden,
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> >From: "Jennie L. Moody" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: LDM Feed
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> >Keywords: 199903091537.IAA06450
> 
> Jeff and Jeff,
> 
> You guys are sites I have for upstream host and failover right now.
> Yesterday I was getting all of the DDS/PPS/HRS feed products into
> our server windfall from Penn State, however, we stopped getting any
> of the Unidata McIDAS broadcast in the morning.  I noticed this
> early in the day, but was too busy to diagnose what was going wrong.
> There were some network connection problems early in the morning,
> so I thought that might have been the trouble ,but those seemed to clear up, 
> and then we continued to get all the non-Unidata Mcidas products we request, 
> but 
> no satellite data, etc.
> 
> Last night I tried restarting the ldm, which made no difference,
> and so this morning, after calling Jeff Wolfe at Penn State to
> see if anything had changed on their end (and not getting him) , I 
> decided to just switch our feed to Michigan.  Jeff M., I did see the 
> message you sent out last Friday indicating that blueskies was going 
> off line and encouraging folks to switch to aldehyde, however, I 
> pinged your machine and seeing it was up thought you might be 
> broadcasting from there. However, I have stopped and started the ldm 
> with blueskies as our feed, and now we seem to be getting nothing!
> 
> windfall: /incoming/data $ tail -150 /home/ldma/logs/ldmad.log
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU rpc.ldmd[23665]: Starting
> Up (built: Aug 13 1997 14:11:27)
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqexpire[23666]: Starting
> Up
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqact[23668]: Starting Up
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU blueskies[23670]:
> run_requester: Starting Up: blueskies.sprl.umich.edu
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU blueskies[23670]:
> run_requester: 19990309150734.687 TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS|HDS|DDPLUS,
> "(^[A-OQ-X])|(^[YZ].[^AHIJRU
> Mar 09 15:08:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqbinstats[23669]: Starting
> Up (23665)
> Mar 09 15:08:25 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU udp.ldmd[23671]: Starting
> Up
> Mar 09 15:08:25 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU localhost[23696]:
> Connection from localhost
> Mar 09 15:08:25 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU localhost[23696]:
> Connection reset by peer
> Mar 09 15:08:25 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU localhost[23696]: Exiting
> Mar 09 15:08:25 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqexpire[23666]: > Recycled
>   7885.913 kb/hr (  8257.253 prods per hour)
> Mar 09 15:09:24 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU blueskies[23670]:
> FEEDME(blueskies.sprl.umich.edu):
> h_clnt_create(blueskies.sprl.umich.edu): Timed out while c
> Mar 09 15:13:27 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqexpire[23666]: > Recycled
>   7052.245 kb/hr (  8148.136 prods per hour)
> Mar 09 15:18:28 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqexpire[23666]: > Recycled
>   6891.832 kb/hr (  7341.406 prods per hour)
> Mar 09 15:20:44 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU blueskies[23670]:
> run_requester: 19990309150734.687 TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS|HDS|DDPLUS,
> "(^[A-OQ-X])|(^[YZ].[^AHIJRU
> Mar 09 15:21:44 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU blueskies[23670]:
> FEEDME(blueskies.sprl.umich.edu):
> h_clnt_create(blueskies.sprl.umich.edu): Timed out while c
> Mar 09 15:23:29 windfall.evsc.Virginia.EDU pqexpire[23666]: > Recycled
>   6602.312 kb/hr (  6808.735 prods per hour)
> windfall: /incoming/data $ /home/ldma/bin/ldmadmin watch      
> (Type ^D or ^C when finished)
> 
> 
> 
> ----several minutes of "watching" and nothing was coming in------
> 
> 
> I am not sure what to make of the "Timed out" line on the FEEDME to
> blueskies, I don't know if you are not running the ldm on this
> machine, or if this implies a network connection problem.  I will
> probably just try switching to aldehyde, but I don't even know if you 
> have me in your configuration for that machine.  
> 
> I would appreciate if either of you are out there and can respond 
> so I can get data flowing again.  I need to leave shortly since its
> snowing and they just cancelled school here, so my kids are heading
> home for the day.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance in getting our data flowing again.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Jennie Moody
> (P.S. Jeff Masters, sorry I missed you when I was out 
> working with  Mary Anne Carroll a couple weeks ago, was
> hoping to do a little catching up.)
> 
> -- 
> 
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