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>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200305121843.h4CIhU7U016942 LDM-6 IDD rtstats Hi, FTP logs at the UPC show that someone from your institution (or, at least, someone in the same domain as you) downloaded a current LDM release, either version 6.0.10 or 6.0.11. Since we are either not receiving real time statistics from the primary IDD node at your site while, at the same time, we are receiving statistics from one or more of your machines that is(are) running LDM-5, I am writing to request that you upgrade all of your LDM machines to the current release, 6.0.11. Reporting of real time ingest statistics will help us continually evaluate the performance of the IDD and make adjustments when/where needed. Some relevant information: Building LDM-6.0.11 Information on building, installing, and configuring LDM-6.0.11 can be found online at: http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.0.11/index.html If you you would like help in upgrading to LDM-6.0.11, please let us know! Reporting real time statistics The ldmd.conf entry that needs to be added to report real time statistics back to Unidata is: exec "rtstats -h rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu" This 'exec' line should be the last 'exec' line in ldmd.conf. Please remember that after making this modification, you will need to stop and restart your LDM: <login as 'ldm'> <modify ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf> ldmadmin stop <wait for all LDM processes to exit> ldmadmin start Upgrading a machine from an LDM previous to 5.1.3 to LDM-6 If you are upgrading a machine that is running an LDM version that is older than 5.1.3, you will need to delete and remake your LDM queue. This will need to be done after you have built the LDM-6 from source; run 'make install' as the user 'ldm'; run 'make install_setuids' as 'root'; adjusted values in the new LDM's startup script, ldmadmin (the most commonly adjusted parameters are: $hostname, $udunits, $pq_size, $surf_size, and/or $numlogs); and changed your runtime link to point at ldm-6.0.11. Deleting and remaking the queue is as simple as: ldmadmin delqueue ldmadmin mkqueue <- this make take some time We are available to help you upgrade your LDM and to tune your data requests in the LDM configuration file, ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf. Please let us know how we can help you! Thanks in advance for your help... Tom Yoksas