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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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Jeff Weber address@hidden : > >Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : > >University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : > >http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > | MAREK KMIECIK | > | Scientific Programmer | > | State University of New York at Albany ASRC-CESTM | > | 251 Fuller Rd. | > | Albany, NY 12203 | > | | > | address@hidden | > | Tel: o(518)437-8719 h(518)869-4617 Fax: (518)437-8758 | > | http://lunch.asrc.cestm.albany.edu/~marek | > ------------------------------------------------------------ >