20040406:Request authorization at the upstream LDM

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Marek Kmiecik wrote:

> Hi, Jeff
>
> I haven't. There are few more things I have to do before I can
> start relying on this flow of data through ldm. I have yet to configure
> ldmd.conf file. Also I have to install mcidas decoders to be able
> to decode data, that I'm receiving. I can't focus only on this task,
> which seems to be dragging little bit.  But I have to finalize the whole
> thing soon and have it out of my way.At the moment, I am still working on 
> it...
> Also, I noticed, you put only spider into your ldmd.conf ALLOW UNIDATA


correct..actually it is an allow UNIWISC

UNIWISC is the sat imagery feed.

> entry. Could you also add pixel to it? So that, in case spider is down,
> I would have backup computer, pixel to do the job.


Again, we hope to feed only one machine per institute/university..

We have added redundancy since you are on another network than gusher, but
I do not see any benefit to feeding pixel as well as spider. pixel should
feed from spider..


If everything goes bad, we do maintain a short archive (a week or so) of
data so folks can fill in gaps if needed.

Cheers,

Jeff


 That way I would be secure
> on both sides. Thanks.
>                 -Marek
> PS
>  I will check the clock drift. I thought our SA is synchronizing clock, but I
>  guess, he doesn't. I will take care of it then.
>
> >
> >Marek,
> >
> >Have you begun to request UNIWISC from weather.bgsu.edu?
> >
> >Also, you have a clock drift on spider..we suggest running ntp via cron.
> >
> >see:
> >
> >http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?UNIWISC+spider.asrc.cest
> m.albany.edu
> >
> >getting data 225 seconds before it arrives at your upstream host..nice
> >trick if it was real :)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Jeff
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> | MAREK KMIECIK                                                  |
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