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20011120: For Tom
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- Subject: 20011120: For Tom
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:01:27 -0700
>From: "James R. Frysinger" <address@hidden>
>Organization: College of Charleston
>Keywords: 200111061842.fA6Igt112242 McIDAS platfomrs
Jim,
>OK, go for it, Tom!
I logged onto weather and investigated your 'BATCH LOCDATA.BAT'
problem. It was a typo, you had:
DATALOC ADD TOPO TOPO
when you wanted:
DATALOC ADD TOPO LOCAL-DATA
I modified LOCDATA.BAT and reran the BATCH invocation and everything went
smoothly.
cd ~mcidas/workdata
batch.k LOCDATA.BAT
DATALOC ADD CIMSS weather.cofc.edu
Group Name Server IP Address
-------------------- ----------------------------------------
CIMSS WEATHER.COFC.EDU
...
DATALOC ADD TOPO LOCAL-DATA
Group Name Server IP Address
-------------------- ----------------------------------------
TOPO <LOCAL-DATA>
<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done
...
DATALOC ADD MYDATA LOCAL-DATA
Group Name Server IP Address
-------------------- ----------------------------------------
MYDATA <LOCAL-DATA>
<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done
batch.k: BATCH done /export/home/mcidas/data/LOCDATA.BAT
Next, I verified the DATALOCs:
dataloc.k LIST
weather[17] dataloc.k LIST
Group Name Server IP Address
-------------------- ----------------------------------------
AMRC UWAMRC.SSEC.WISC.EDU
BLIZZARD ADDE.UCAR.EDU
CIMSS WEATHER.COFC.EDU
GINICOMP SNOW.PLYMOUTH.EDU
GINIEAST CACIMBO.GGY.UGA.EDU
GINIWEST PAPAGAYO.UNL.EDU
ME7 IO.SCA.UQAM.CA
MYDATA <LOCAL-DATA>
RTGRIDS WEATHER.COFC.EDU
RTIMAGES WEATHER.COFC.EDU
RTNEXRAD WEATHER.COFC.EDU
RTPTSRC WEATHER.COFC.EDU
RTWXTEXT WEATHER.COFC.EDU
TOPO <LOCAL-DATA>
<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done
And verified that you can get lists from remote servers:
weather[19] dsinfo.k I GINIWEST
Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: GINIWEST
Name NumPos Content
------------ ------ --------------------------------------
GAN8KIR 99999 GINI 8 km 10.7 um Alaska National
GAN8KVIS 99999 GINI 8 km VIS Alaska National
GAN8KWV 99999 GINI 8 km WV Alaska National
GAR16KWV 99999 GINI 16 km WV Alaska Regional
GAR2KVIS 99999 GINI 2 km VIS Alaska Regional
GAR8K12 99999 GINI 8 km 12.0 um Alaska Regional
GAR8K39 99999 GINI 8 km 3.9 um Alaska Regional
GAR8KIR 99999 GINI 8 km 10.7 um Alaska Regional
GHN14KIR 99999 GINI 14 km IR Hawaii National
GHN14KVIS 99999 GINI 14 km VIS Hawaii National
GHN14KWV 99999 GINI 14 km WV Hawaii National
GHR1KVIS 99999 GINI 1 km VIS Hawaii Regional
GHR4K12 99999 GINI 4 km 12.0 Hawaii Regional
GHR4K39 99999 GINI 4 km 3.9 um Hawaii Regional
GHR4KIR 99999 GINI 4 km 10.7 um Hawaii Regional
GHR8KWV 99999 GINI 8 km WV Hawaii Regional
GMC24KIR 99999 GINI 24 km 10.7 um Mult-Composite
GMC24KVIS 99999 GINI 24 km VIS Mult-Composite
GMC24KWV 99999 GINI 24 km WV Mult-Composite
GNC24K12 99999 GINI 24 km 12.0 um Nhem-Composite
GNC24K39 99999 GINI 24 km 3.9 um Nhem-Composite
GNC24KIR 99999 GINI 24 km 10.7 um Nhem-Composite
GNC24KVIS 99999 GINI 24 km VIS Nhem-Composite
GNC24KWV 99999 GINI 24 km WV Nhem-Composite
GSN8K12 99999 GINI 8 km 12.0 um Super-National
GSN8K39 99999 GINI 8 km 3.9 um Super-National
GSN8KCTP 99999 GINI 8 km Sounder Cloud Top Pressure
GSN8KIR 99999 GINI 8 km 10.7 um Super-National
GSN8KLI 99999 GINI 8 km Sounder Lifted Index
GSN8KPW 99999 GINI 8 km Sounder Precipitable Water
GSN8KSFCT 99999 GINI 8 km Sounder SFC Skin Temperature
GSN8KVIS 99999 GINI 8 km VIS Super-National
GSN8KWV 99999 GINI 8 km WV Super-National
GW1KVIS 99999 GINI 1 km VIS West CONUS
GW4K12 99999 GINI 4 km 12.0 um West CONUS
GW4K39 99999 GINI 4 km 3.9 um West CONUS
GW4KIR 99999 GINI 4 km 10.7 um West CONUS
GW8KWV 99999 GINI 8 km WV West CONUS
DSINFO -- done
weather[20] imglist.k GINIWEST/GW1KVIS
Image file directory listing for:GINIWEST/GW1KVIS
Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s)
sensor Lat Lon
--- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------
32 G-10 IMG 20 NOV 01324 21:30:00 39 117 1
imglist.k: done
Looking good.
Next, I checked how much shared memory was available. The technique
is what is described in:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/780/mcx/workstation.html
weather[15] /usr/sbin/sysdef | grep SHMMAX
536870912 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX)
So, weather has the amount of shared memory that you told it to have.
Next, I verified the set of REDIRECTions that you defined in LOCAL.NAM:
weather[21] redirect.k LIST
Number of active redirection entries=82
AREA007* /export/home/mcdata
AREA008* /export/home/mcdata
AREA009* /export/home/mcdata
...
SYNOPTIC.RAT /export/home/mcdata
TERMFCST.RAP /export/home/mcdata
TERMFCST.RAT /export/home/mcdata
redirect.k: Done
Next, I verified the setting of XCDDATA:
weather[26] tl.k XCDDATA
XCDDATA := /export/home/mcdata
--END OF LIST
Since all of this is looking very good, I decided to check on the
status of your McIDAS-XCD installation/configuration. Apparently, you
built XCD, but did not install it. The reason I know this is wmorte.k
exists in ~mcidas/mcidas7.8/src, but not in ~mcidas/binweather[32].
cd ~mcidas/mcidas7.8/src
ls wmorte.k ~/bin/wmorte.k
/export/home/mcidas/bin/wmorte.k: No such file or directory
wmorte.k*
So, you must have done a 'make install' instead of a 'make install.all'.
'make install' installs only McIDAS-X; 'make install.all' installs
McIDAS-X and McIDAS-XCD.
I installed McIDAS-XCD for you:
make install.xcdall
Next up is finishing the configuration of XCD. This is really simple:
cd ~mcidas/workdata
batch.k XCD.BAT
Now, this BATCH file adds file REDIRECtions for *.bu* and *.gr* files:
REDIRECT ADD *.bu* DEV=NNN "/export/home/mcdata/bufr
REDIRECT ADD *.gr* DEV=NNN "/export/home/mcdata/grib
Note that the REDIRECtions are for /export/home/mcdata/bufr and
/export/home/mcdata/grib. These directories need to be created or else
you will get tedious messages (warnings) when running DMAP. So, I
created them:
mkdir /export/home/mcdata/bufr
mkdir /export/home/mcdata/grib
After doing this, initial XCD configuration can be finished:
batch.k XCDDEC.BAT
XCD configuration is not finished at this point. In particular, model
data is not yet ready to be decoded. The reason for this is that one
must be sure that there is enough disk space before turning on the
GRID decoder. Listing the status of XCD decoders and turning them on
and off is done with the XCD DECINFO command. Here how things look
by default:
decinfo.k LIST
Processing Data Monitor: DMSFC is active
=========================================================================
Decoder Status Configuration File
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SAODEC Active ISFCDEC.CFG
...
Processing Data Monitor: DMGRID is inactive
=========================================================================
Decoder Status Configuration File
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRIB Active GRIBDEC.CFG
...
Since you have a lot of disk in /export/home:
weather[45] df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 4030518 1978176 2012037 50% /
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 413080 1304 411776 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 24560695 8309597 16005492 35% /export/home
I decided to go ahead and turn on GRID decoding:
weather[46] decinfo.k SET DMGRID ACTIVE
decinfo.k: Done
OK, so now when you configure the LDM to:
1) exec "xcd_run MONITOR" <- in pqact.cond
2) send all textual data to the McIDAS-XCD text ingester and send all
model output to the binary ingester:
<in ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf>
DDPLUS|IDS ^.* PIPE
xcd_run DDS
HRS ^.* PIPE
xcd_run HRS
your system will decode McIDAS POINT data (surface, upper air, synoptic,
airep/pirep, and ship/buoy) and GRID data (model output from ETA, NGM,
AVN, MRF, etc.).
The last thing I wanted to setup (since I was on a 5 minute roll)
was copying needed files to /export/home/mcdata that are needed for
ldm-mcidas decoding (satellite imagery, FSL wind profiler winds, and
NLDN lightning data):
cp ~mcidas/data/SCHEMA /export/home/mcdata
cp ~mcidas/data/SYSKEY.TAB /export/home/mcdata
cp ~mcidas/workdata/ROUTE.SYS /export/home/mcdata
cd /export/home/mcdata
chmod 664 SYSKEY.TAB ROUTE.SYS SCHEMA
I checked the ADDE remote server configuration file ~mcidas/.mcenv
and it looks good as does the setup in /etc/services.
The ADDE lines in /etc/inetd.conf, on the other hand, are incorrect:
mcserv stream tcp nowait mcadde /export/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh
mcservsh -H /export/home/mcadde
mccompress stream tcp nowait mcadde
/export/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh mcservsh -H /export/home/mcadde
Notice that that the value of the -H flag in each is /export/home/mcadde when
they should be /export/home/mcidas. The setup for the remote server
was probably done before you corrected the /etc/passwd entry for 'mcadde'.
What you should do now as 'root' is:
o correct the default shell for 'mcadde' in /etc/passwd; make it /bin/false
(the default shell for 'mcadde' should be /bin/false (not a login account!)
o uninstall the remote server:
cd ~mcidas
sh ./mcinet7.8.sh uninstall mcadde
o reinstall the remote server
sh ./mcinet7.8.sh install mcadde
At this point, the ADDE remote server should work for those sites that
are either behind your firewall or enabled through it.
Then, you can go on to setup the LDM and get data rolling in!
Tom
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