Re: Hello and a question

Hi Richard, 

Thanks for the clarifications!

I have updated our contact list..

Peridot must have just fired back up, my earlier ldmping returned "service
unavailable", I have adjusted our records accordingly.

Thanks again,

-Jeff
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Jeff Weber                                    address@hidden
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University Corp for Atmospheric Research      3300 Mitchell Ln
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber      Boulder,Co 80307-3000
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 address@hidden wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:46:46AM -0600, Jeff Weber wrote:
> > Hi Richard, 
> > 
> > A couple of things I notice right away:
> > 
> > 1) peridot.atmos.ucla.edu is not up and running, to the best of my
> > knowledge the machine at UCLA currently is:
> > typhoon.atmos.ucla.edu
> 
> peridot is actually running.  I was emailed by James Murakami and asked to
> switch to that server.
> 
> > 
> > It may or may not have an allow for you since the last record I have of
> > your machine name is:
> > atm25.ucdavis.edu
> > 
> > 
> > You are also requesting the entire NNEXRAD feed 1) UCLA does not ingest
> > the entire feed 2) we ask that sites request sub-sets of the data i.e. all
> > the prods from a few radars (of interest) or a few prods from a region. We
> > also produce a 1KM mosaic of BREF1 for the nation...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I'm actually only getting the IDS|DDPLUS and HDS products, I copied the
> configuration file from something my predecessor set up...
> 
> > 
> > Please
> > see:http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/howto-nnexrad.html
> > 
> > Additionally, the PPS and DDPLUS requests are redundant, they are included
> > in the IDS|DDPLUS feed..
> > 
> > Could you please update us with your full machine name and contact info.
> 
> Currently, the machine that I'm using as an ldm server is
> 
> atm20.ucdavis.edu
> 
> and my contact info is:
> 
> Richard Massa
> 1111 PES Building
> One Shields Avenue
> Davis, CA, 95616
> (530) 752-8297
> 
> > 
> > Thank you and welcome back!
> > 
> > 
> > -Jeff
> > ____________________________                  _____________________
> > Jeff Weber                                    address@hidden
> > Unidata Support                               PH:303-497-8676 
> > COMET Case Study Library                      FX:303-497-8690
> > University Corp for Atmospheric Research      3300 Mitchell Ln
> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber      Boulder,Co 80307-3000
> > ________________________________________      ______________________
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 Richard address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,  I'm the new sysadmin for the UC Davis Atmospheric Sciences group,
> > > replacing Erick Lorenz, and I've taken over the adminstration of the LDM 
> > > system, which wasn't (according to my professors) in a working state.  So 
> > > I've
> > > set up a new system running the latest version of the LDM software and 
> > > I've
> > > been having some problems... 
> > > 
> > > I guess the first thing that I need help with is figuring out what 
> > > products I 
> > > need to injest to run a functional mcidas 2002a installation using only 
> > > local 
> > > data.  I'm currently set up to feed off of UCLA, which seems to be working
> > > (although randomly dying every once in a while, but I'll deal with that 
> > > once its
> > > at least functional).  When I initially configured this in the summer, I 
> > > was
> > > under the impression that all I needed to make sure was working was that 
> > > the
> > > ldm was properly sending data off to the ldm-mcidas decoders which 
> > > created the
> > > mcidas AREAxxxx files.  However, I'm working with a professor (who, to 
> > > make
> > > matters worse, hasn't used mcidas in a few years) and when we are running 
> > > the
> > > MCGUI program, we can't get much of anything to display using the imagery 
> > > and
> > > observation menus.  The goal of course, is to get this to work, and so I'm
> > > starting from the lowest level to see if I at least have the ldm set up
> > > correctly.  I'm including the uncommented snippits from relevant 
> > > configuration
> > > files:
> > > 
> > > #####from ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf######
> > > exec    "pqexpire"
> > > exec    "pqbinstats"
> > > exec    "pqact"
> > > exec    "pqsurf -f DDS"
> > > exec    "rtstats -h rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu"
> > > 
> > > request WMO ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request DDPLUS ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request IDS|DDPLUS ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request PPS ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request NNEXRAD ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request HDS ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request NLDN ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request MCIDAS ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > request FSL2 ".*" peridot.atmos.ucla.edu
> > > 
> > > allow   ANY
> > >     
> > > ^((localhost|loopback)|(127\.0\.0\.1\.?$)|([a-z].*\.unidata\.ucar\.edu\.?$))
> > > #################################
> > > 
> > > #####from ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf######
> > > 
> > > -- lots of stuff here -- using the unaltered ldm-mcidas-pqact.conf 
> > > (v.7.8) file.
> > > #################################
> > > 
> > > #####from ~ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf######
> > > -- my pqsurf.conf is something created by Eric DeFonso, 10,23,96, and not 
> > >   putting anything into any directories that mcidas looks in (I think)
> > > 
> > > #################################
> > > 
> > > So does everything look correct here and should I move on and ask these
> > > questions on other venues?  I appreciate your time.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ------- End of Forwarded Message
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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