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Hi Adam, re: > I am a student assistant at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. I > am part of the Meteorology Department and work under Dr. Richard Wagner. Nice to meet you... re: > We are currently in the process of switching to a more powerful > machine. That being said, we would like to receive data for our new > machine. Since we have LDM set up for wxbox.mscd.edu, what steps do we > need to take to get the data to come down to bora.mscd.edu ? You need to setup the same ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf REQUEST lines on bora that you have currently on wxbox. re: > Who is our upstream LDM? A quick check of our real time stats site shows that you are currently requesting all of your datastreams from rainbow.al.noaa.gov. Here is how you find this out: Unidata Home http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ->Tools http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software ->IDD http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd ->Real-Time IDD statistics http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd/rtstats/ ->Statistics by Host http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/siteindex Look for wxbox.mscd.edu and click on it. This will take you to: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/siteindex?wxbox.mscd.edu This last page shows which datastreams you are currently receiving. Each datastream type has a 'topology' link. Clicking on this link will show your upstream feed site(s); their upstream feed site(s), and so on. Recommendations when you move your LDM setup to bora: - install and use the latest LDM release. This is currently ldm-6.8.1 - make sure to continue to report real time statistics back to us (wxbox is doing this now; the default configuration for the LDM is to report statistics) 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: UHQ-202981 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed