Re: 20000804: LDM modifications for Unidata-Wisconsin imagery

I have been here all day, and no one contacted me.  The answer to the problem is
that Tom Yoksas made a typo in the SSEC ldmd.conf file, which shut us out of
that site.  It has been fixed.

How did you try to contact me?


Unidata Support <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> You can use the notifyme command to check what products your upstream
> is receiving:
> 
> notifyme -v -l - -o 3600 -f MCIDAS -h grayskies.atmos.washington.edu
> 
> It appears that currently, that machine is not receiving any MCIDAS products.
> This should not have anything to do with the message below.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> 
> 
> >From: address@hidden
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200008042105.e74L56T11262
> 
> >Tom,
> >
> >Is there anyway you could check if this situation exists on 
> >grayskies.atmos.washington.edu?  We've not received an AREA file since 9:30am
> >and I have not been able to contact anyone responsible at that site.  Harry
> wa
> > s 
> >gone last week and I contacted his backup when we were having some other feed
> >  
> >problems, but no reply today.
> >
> >Wayne Gibson
> >Oregon State University
> >
> >> From address@hidden Fri Aug  4 13:45 PDT 2000
> >> To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
> >> cc: address@hidden
> >> Subject: 20000804: LDM modifications for Unidata-Wisconsin imagery
> >> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:32:35 -0600
> >> From: Tom Yoksas <address@hidden>
> >> 
> >> >From:  Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
> >> >Organization:  NIU
> >> >Keywords:  200008041941.e74JfkT27007 LDM ldm-mcidas ldmd.conf pqact.conf
> >> 
> >> Gilbert, and those feeding from him:
> >> 
> >> Just one comment for the folks feeding from one or more of Gilbert's
> >> machines:
> >> 
> >> >Further, I commented out all my old McIDAS entries for AREA file
> >> >reception using the old method and am now saving just the AREA files
> >> >that are compressed the PNG way. We will see if the entries work as
> >> >expected. Those of you hooked up to my ldm should only experience a
> >> >temporary delay until the queue catches up, which has already happened on
> >> >my end. I will keep an eye on it to make sure it stays up today.
> >> 
> >> If the change Gilbert made is in how he requests the imagery (i.e., a
> >> modification of the MCIDAS request line in his ldmd.conf files), and if
> >> you have not updated your ldmd.conf request line and have not installed
> >> the new ldm-mcidas PNG compressed image decoder, pnga2area, you could
> >> find yourself getting no Unidata-Wisconsin images.
> >> 
> >> Details:
> >> 
> >> the ldmd.conf MCIDAS request line for non-leaf node IDD (i.e., relay)
> >> sites should look like:
> >> 
> >> request    MCIDAS  ".*" upstream_feed_machine_name
> >> 
> >> This enables all images to be sent to the relay.
> >> 
> >> The request line for IDD leaf nodes can be refined to request only
> >> PNG compressed imagery:
> >> 
> >> request    MCIDAS  "^pnga2area Q[01]" upstream_feed_machine_name
> >> 
> >> Leaf nodes should only change their MCIDAS request lines if they have
> >> installed and configured their pqact.conf files for pnga2area.
> >> 
> >> Just thought I should stick my 2 cents worth in...
> >> 
> >> Tom
> >> --
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