20041026: Receive, compress, and send

>From: "Keen.Jeremy" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200410261316.i9QDGcvV018871

>I was wondering if there is a way in which to receive data from an upstream LD
> M to our main downstream LDM pull what we want from that stream with our pqac
> t then compress the data and send the compressed data to a downstream LDM fro
> m our main LDM?  Will greatly appreciate any help you can give on this.  
> 
>Thanks
>Jeremy
>
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Jeremy,

You can "PIPE -close" the incoming product to a script which compresses
the data product (compress, gzip, bzip2), and then runs pqinsert to
insert the created compressed product into your queue. Your downstream
can receive the products you place in your queue by requesting the appropriate
feedtype/pattern.

An example of a csh script could look like:

#!/bin/csh -f
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# Steve Chiswell        10/26/2004
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echo "$argv" | logger -t "$0 [$$]" -p local0.notice

cat | gzip > data/${argv}
pqinsert -f EXP -p ${argv} data/${argv}

exit(0)



The above script assumes that gzip and pqinsert are in the path of the running
pqact process. Your pqact.conf action would look like
ANY     somepattern
        PIPE    -close  util/compress_script.csh prodname.gz


The invocation will create an ldmd.log line for your script with the time and 
prodname.gz
so you can track your processing. The $argv will be prodname.gz.
The -p flag to pqinsert lets you specify the product name inserted into the 
queue,
and if ommitted the product name will be the compete file path name.
Depending on your needs, you can remove the data product after queue insertion,
or scour it later as needed.


Steve Chiswell

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