[IDD #YXF-596402]: VM for McIDAS at DU

Hi Matt,

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re:
> I am one of a few central computing system admins here at the
> University of Denver, and I've been tasked with turning up a Linux VM
> running McIDAS and LDM.  I was given your contact information
> initially from Michael Keables here at DU.

OK.  Out of curiosity can you tell me the host system on which the VM
will be running?  (I run VMWare on my Windows XP netbook and run
several different Linux virtual machines in it: Fedora 11, OpenSUSE 10.3,
Ubuntu).

re:
> I have LDM installed, and I need to test pulling some data with it
> before I move on to McIDAS.  If you could help me with authentication
> and what I should do to test that would be great.

If DNS for the machine/VM supports forward and reverse name lookup (it
seems to), then you should be able to try feeds from:

rainbow.al.noaa.gov  <- try first and stay with it if it works
idd.unidata.ucar.edu <- failover site

> I'm going to CC
> Michael on this to get his input on the feedtypes that he wants; the
> host that will be accessing the data is cumulus.cair.du.edu.

Here is the simplest thing to do as a first test to see if your
LDM installation is working:

<login as 'ldm' on cumulus.cair.du.edu>
cd ~ldm
notifyme -vl- -f ANY -h rainbow.al.noaa.gov

This should return back something like:

Dec 07 20:55:31 notifyme[11350] NOTE: Starting Up: rainbow.al.noaa.gov: 
20091207205531.970 TS_ENDT {{ANY,  ".*"}}
Dec 07 20:55:31 notifyme[11350] NOTE: LDM-5 desired product-class: 
20091207205531.970 TS_ENDT {{ANY,  ".*"}}
Dec 07 20:55:31 notifyme[11350] INFO: Resolving rainbow.al.noaa.gov to 
140.172.240.190 took 0.009571 seconds
Dec 07 20:55:31 notifyme[11350] NOTE: NOTIFYME(rainbow.al.noaa.gov): OK
Dec 07 20:55:32 notifyme[11350] INFO:      249 20091207205532.115 IDS|DDPLUS 
92247602  SXMX20 KWAL 072055
Dec 07 20:55:32 notifyme[11350] INFO:      107 20091207205532.116 IDS|DDPLUS 
92247603  SXPA50 KWAL 072055
 ...

You will need to Ctrl-C to kill 'notifyme'.

When you have this working, the next step is to setup the ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf
file to request the data feeds you want.  I seem to recall that Mike used
to ingest:

IDS|DDPLUS
HDS
UNIWISC
FNEXRAD

I can't remember if he got:

NIMAGE
NEXRAD3

Assuming the first set, you can easily configure the LDM request for the
data using the following two REQUEST lines in ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf:

request  IDS|DDPLUS|FNEXRAD  ".*"  rainbow.al.noaa.gov
request  HDS|UNIWISC   ".*"  rainbow.al.noaa.gov

Let's touch base after you have verified that your LDM is correctly
installed and working correctly.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YXF-596402
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed