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Gilbert, Ah. I thought this discussion was about noaaport.admin.niu.edu because that was the only host you had mentioned until now. I have no opinion about weather3.admin.niu.edu because I didn't investigate it. I'm glad that data is now flowing, however. > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Unidata LDM Support wrote: > > > Gilbert, > > > >> So, if the backup has no backup feeds, my LDM won't fail over? > > > > I'm afraid that I don't understand the question. > > > > I'm saying that the LDM system on host noaaport.admin.niu.edu was > >running based on a configuration-file that did not have a REQUEST entry > >for data from the LDM on host idd.unidata.ucar.edu. Consequently, when > >the feed from 131.156.129.136 went down, there was no feed from > >idd.unidata.ucar.edu to take over. When the LDM was restarted based on a > >configuration-file that had the missing REQUEST entry, data started > >flowing from idd.unidata.ucar.edu to noaaport.admin.niu.edu. > > Correct. But, on weather3.admin.niu.edu, I pointed to > noaaport.admin.niu.edu as a primary, and idd.unidata.ucar.edu as a backup. > When noaaport.admin.niu.edu went down, I had the understanding that > weather3.admin.niu.edu should have failed over to idd.unidata.ucar.edu, > which it did not do. > > > I suspect that you added the entry sometime after the LDM was started > >but forgot to restart the LDM. Thus, the REQUEST entry for data from > >idd.unidata.ucar.edu was in the configuration-file but was after-the-fact > for the running LDM. > > > > Been there. Done that. Bought the tee-shirt. :-) > > See above, I didn't ask the question properly. > > Gilbert > > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * > ******************************************************************************* Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CVY-225341 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed