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Hi Matt, NB: I drove this into the Unidata inquiry tracking system. Please include the Ticket ID you receive on this reply in all future correspondence you send on data reception-related topics. When we get to the point of installing/configuring McIDAS, please send questions to address@hidden and leave off the Ticket ID you received in this exchange. Thanks! 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 -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YXF-596402 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed