[IDD #YYT-234815]: Ship and Synoptic obs not received after 06-07Z every day since 9/1

Hi Greg,

re:
> We are running this on sferic.eol.ucar.edu, also known as t2.eol.ucar.edu.
> Prior to today I had not made any changes to the pqact_wmo.conf since around
> 8/23. Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

A comparison between t2.eol.ucar.edu and by idd.unidata.ucar.edu shows that
the IDS|DDPLUS volumes received by each are identical.  This should indicate
that the problem is not in the datastream, but, rather, on your machine or
in the LDM installation on your machine.

re:
> I'm attaching a directory listing of files we've been receiving for the
> last month to illustrate what I'm talking about. We stabilized into a
> routine setup around 8/23 collecting synoptic, ship and metar obs for our
> upcoming DYNAMO support. For every hour starting around 8/23 there are 3
> files, a .METAR, .SHP and a .SYN . On Sept 1, the ship files stop at 02 Z
> and the .SYN files get really small from 03 - 06 Z and then there is only
> .METAR from 07 - 23 UTC. This pattern more or less repeats for every day
> since. I've attached our ldmd.conf and our pqact_wmo.conf so you can see
> what we're doing. The latter is a mess but the patterns that should govern
> these files can be found in the first 10 lines of that file.
> 
> If you look a little further down the pqact.conf  (lines 18, 31, 32)
> you'll also see that we are saving the .SYN and .SHP files in a different
> directory. These do not show the data gaps seen in the dynamo directory. I'm
> not sure why files show up in one directory and not the other.

I know of no reason why two pattern-action entries that specify the exact
same pattern, but FILE output to different directories should differ _unless_
there is something fundamentally different between the locations for the
writes.

Questions:

- is data/dynamo on a different file system than data/weather/ddp?

- if yes, is one on an NFS-mounted file system and the other is not?

- is there a scouring action being run in the data/dynamo directory?

re:
> One example I
> looked at was for the US research ship the Roger Revelle (KAOU) which is in
> the Indian Ocean right now and reporting hourly. The header I saw in a file
> that was saved in the weather/ddp directory for this ob was SNVE01 which
> should have matched the pattern set up for the DYNAMO directory as well.

Please verify that the following pairs of pattern-action entries illustrate
your observation that the first one fails for certain hours and the second
one always succeeds:

WMO ^S[IMN][VW][ABCDEFJ].. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])    FILE    -close 
data/dynamo/(\1:yyyy)(\2:mm)\1\2.SHP
WMO ^S.V.* .... ([0-3][[0-9])([0-2][0-9])   FILE    -close 
data/weather/ddp/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2.SHP

WMO ^S[IMN].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])   FILE    -close 
data/dynamo/(\1:yyyy)(\2:mm)\1\2.SYN
WMO ^S[IMN].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])   FILE    -close 
data/weather/ddp/(\1:yyyy)(\2:mm)\1\2.SYN

If/when you verify this, I will setup the exact same actions on my workstation 
here
in the UPC and see if the same problem presents itself.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YYT-234815
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Open