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Unidata Support wrote: > >To: address@hidden > >From: Joanne Edwards <address@hidden> > >Subject: Multiple LDM capabilities > >Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory > >Keywords: 200001312340.QAA18420 > > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a capability in LDM for running > multiple LDM servers on the same node, or for handling data of different > priorities. In our environment, we are hoping to use LDM to bring in > some high priority text products - watches and warnings - but we don't > want them stuck in the LDM queue behind lower priority products. Is > there a way in LDM to handle this? > > Thanks, > > Joanne Edwards > > -- > ******************************************************************************** > * G. Joanne Edwards NOAA/ERL/FSL > * > * Modernization Division R/E/FS6 > * > * Forecast Systems Laboratory 325 Broadway > * > * Phone: 497-6903 Email: address@hidden Boulder, CO 80303 * > ******************************************************************************** Hi Joanne! It's Anne. How are you doing? I hope they're treating you well! The main limitation to running 2 LDMs is that the LDM grabs port 388 for sending and recieving data. To run 2 LDMs would mean modifying the source code to accomodate another port, and then the upstream site would have to know to send to that port, resulting in another logical network... Not a great solution. Also, currently there is no way to prioritize products, although we have had discussions about how to do this in future versions. Perhaps the simplest solution at this time, if you have the resources, is to set up a separate box on which to run another LDM to listen only for those high priority products. The LDM will run on Linux, and those systems can be acquired relatively cheaply. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 (303) 497-8677 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************