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Hi Brian, re: > Should we try to eliminate the middleman of metofis? It is 8 years > old and unmaintained. This seems like a good move given the machine's age and lack of attention. I would strongly suggest that the plug not be pulled until weather.rsmas.miami.edu is fully up and running as desired, however. Talking about weather... I installed the latest version of both LDM and McIDAS on the machine yesterday. I also installed Tomcat6 (which is included in a yum repository for CentOS) and started configuring it late in the afternoon. I will be returning to installation/configuration activities off and on during the day today. Question: - did you save off the LDM configuration files before wiping weather? Given our phone discussions, I am assuming that the objective is to setup weather just like our motherlode server (motherlode.ucar.edu), and this would include ingesting and processing the same set of data that motherlode does. The only potential problem with this is that motherlode basically ingests and processes _everything_ that is available in the IDD. The volume of data currently is on the order of 12 GB/hr input average with peaks that exceed 20 GB/hr. Given that weather is an older machine, it may not be able to cope with the sheer volume of data that is available via the IDD. The other thing is that motherlode runs the full suite of GEMPAK decoding. If you/UMiami are not going to be doing anything with GEMPAK, it would seem unwise to process all of the data in the IDD for GEMPAK use. Musing about the above: I think I will start off by processing all of NOAAPort data first. This excludes processing of the high resolution NCEP model output in the CONDUIT datastream and the full volume scan radar data in the NEXRAD2 datastream. Please let me know if you agree or disagree with this approach. 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: DLW-777823 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed