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Michael, > We've upgraded the main data lines on our two Level II distribution > servers to gigabit and have gotten approval use some of that extra > bandwidth to send rtstats back to Unidata. I have some questions about > the configuration of our servers and setting up a system to simulate the > Unidata servers. > > I know we'll need to add "exec rtstats -h rtstats.unidata...." to our > ldmd.conf files. Correct. > We've removed the "allow any [a-z].unidata..." line and replaced it with > two allow statements, "allow NEXRAD2 oliver" and "allow NEXRAD2 emo". That will allow Oliver and Emo to request NEXRAD2 data-products from you. > Is that sufficient for you to get rtstats? Do we add "^rtstats" to our > allows? Do we add two more allows for just the rtstats? Or some other > option? You don't need any of the above. All you need is the "EXEC rtstats ..." entry in your LDM configuration-file. That, by itself, will cause rtstats(1) data-products to be sent to us. We're already set-up to accept incoming rtstats(1) data-products from you. rtstats(1) data-products are usually not requested by an LDM (i.e., there's usually no "REQUEST" entry in an LDM configuration-file for rtstats(1) data-products). Instead, such data-products are "pushed" by the rtstats(1) program "out of the blue" to an LDM server that has an "ACCEPT" entry in its configuration-file that will allow the incoming data-products to be received and, consequently, processed. > Also, we'd like to simulate sending the rtstats to the Unidata servers > in our testbed. Any hints as to how we should configure the ldmd.conf > on a system that simulates the Unidata servers would be appreciated. Use the "-h" option of rtstats(1) to send its data-products to an LDM of yours that has an appropriate ACCEPT entry, e.g., ACCEPT EXP "^rtstats" "\.gov$" The rtstats(1) program has a manual page. > Thanks, > Mike Weeks * 405-573-3475 > Radar Operations Center > Norman, OK Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NOL-861690 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed