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> Hi Tom, Hi Bongchul, > > I heard that there will be an outage in the IDD service tomorrow. > Since we (University of Iowa) are getting radar Level II data through LDM, > this will affect our real-time rainfall estimation system. > Can iddb be used as an alternative and can I specify this in ldmf.conf? > Thank you for your help! Yes, you are allowed in the "backup cluster", please feel free to add iddb.unidata.ucar.edu to your ldmd.conf for requesting data. Apologies for the slow response... > > Bongchul > Jeff Jeff Weber Unidata User Support http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CSW-815764 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open