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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:49:49 -0500 (CDT) From: David Wojtowicz <address@hidden> To: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden> Subject: Re: Problem with "data2": Good connection, No Data For some reason, we were only getting a trickle from thelma.ucar.edu. More seems to be coming in now though. --david On Tue, 25 May 1999, C. Vandersip wrote: > David, > > Just checked LDM and noticed only a tiny trickle of DDPLUS data coming our > way from "data2" since 0349 EDT. Again, LDM did not fail over here > because our connection to you is still good. have manually switched over > to blueskies at umich. Though you should know. > > Chris > > ############################################################### > # Chris Vandersip # > # Computer Research Specialist/Asst. Sysadmin # > # Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University # > # address@hidden (850)644-2522 # > ############################################################### > > On Fri, 21 May 1999, David Wojtowicz wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the delayed response. I keep hacker's hours (roughly > > noon to midnight) so I don't always see the problems at 8AM. > > > > For the record, the current configuration at UIUC is this: > > > > All upstream data sources come into squall.atmos.uiuc.edu > > This includes WMO from thelma and MCIDAS from unidata.ssec.wisc.edu. > > This machine also runs pqact for local data storage. > > > > data2.atmos.uiuc.edu is downstream of squall and is dedicated > > to relay to other downstream nodes. It does not run pqact or > > anything else of significance so can dedicate all its resources to relaying. > > > > As for the current problems... > > > > squall was up and running and has apparently recieved all the data. > > > > data2 was also up and running and was connected to several downstream > > nodes. However, I did notice several queue corruption messages in > > the logs, so perhaps this was preventing data from getting through. > > I have rebuilt the queue and restarted. Hopefully that will help. > > Strange, normally data2 is pretty reliable. If there's a problem > > its usually due to some external factor like networking, etc. > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > David Wojtowicz, Research Programmer/Systems Manager > > Department of Atmospheric Sciences Computer Services > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > email: address@hidden phone: (217)333-8390 > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- David Wojtowicz, Research Programmer/Systems Manager Department of Atmospheric Sciences Computer Services University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: address@hidden phone: (217)333-8390 --------------------------------------------------------