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Stephen, I parse the information sent back by sites here into a netcdf FILE for web plots at http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/idd/rtstats For your own use, it depends on what you want to view. The fields in the rtstats message are described in the LDM man page on rtstats. There are 11 fields in the stats message. Of basic interest, for the 5th field, which contains the origin point of the product, for the ingest machine, there will only be the one name. Then, as products are passed along, the immediate upstream site name will be found following the _v_ string. I use this for determining the product routing. Otherwise, each message will have the same format. You can restrict the feedtypes that your rtstats processes if needed. The nprods and nbytes are hourly totals, so will increase through the hour as products are received. The 2 date/times are the beginning are in whole seconds, so there is the possibility that you will get -1 second latency on internal products (rounding inaccuracy) depending on how frequently the hosts sync their time (so allow for that possibility), anything more on the negative side signals a definite clock error. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Stephen Sinnis" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200404191316.i3JDGFfB020380 >Institution: The Weather Network / Meteorology >Package Version: ldm-6.0.14 >Operating System: Linux >Hardware Information: ASUS 533 P4 800MHz 1GB DDR 32GB SCSI II >Inquiry: I am interested in information about applications that are used to cr > eate the web pages for the IDD Feedtype/Topologies. > >I wish to create a website mapping of our internal ldm data flow. Any advise > or assistance on how to use the EXP rtstats data would be appreciated. > >Stephen Sinnis >Pelmorex Inc >1 Robert Speck Parkway >Mississauga, ON L4Z 4B3 >address@hidden >905-566-9511 - tel. >905-566-5905 - fax. > > > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.