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20030925: McIDAS-X setup after disk failure (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20030925: McIDAS-X setup after disk failure (cont.)
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:35:21 -0600
>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: Aeronomy Laboratory/NOAA

re: Do you want me to login and take a look at blizzard?
>Yes, Please!

OK.  I logged onto blizzard and took a look around.

I see that the REDIRECTions setup for McIDAS specify the
/home/mcidas/savedata directory for output of the XCD decoders that are
run by the LDM.

I verified that the rapid access files used for TEXT products that
are served by ADDE, *.RAP did not exist, as you said in your first
email.  I also verified that some .DAT files needed by XCD decoders
did not exist in the $MCDATA directory (which is /home/mcidas/solaris/workdata
on your system).  The *.RAP and *.DAT files that were missing are created
by the two configuration steps that I sent previously:

batch.k XCD.BAT
batch.k XCDDEC.BAT

After stopping the LDM (as 'ldm), I did as I indicated before:

cd /home/mcidas/solaris/workdata
batch.k XCD.BAT
batch.k XCDDEC.BAT

After these two invocations, the missing *.DAT and *.RAP files exist:

% ls -alt *.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata     3584 Sep 25 17:27 DECOSTAT.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata      128 Sep 25 17:16 SIGCO.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata   481600 Sep 25 17:16 COUNTRY.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata   295788 Sep 25 17:15 GROUPS.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata    61440 Mar 24  2003 DECINFO.DAT
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata     1280 Mar 24  2003 CIRCUIT.DAT

(the .DAT files created are COUNTRY.DAT GROUPS.DAT SIGCO.DAT).

% dmap.k \*.R\*
PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME     DIRECTORY
---- --------- ------------ ------------ ---------
-rw-    142596 Sep 25 17:16 FOUS14.RAP   /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   4978692 Sep 25 17:16 RAOB.RAP     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  37680772 Sep 25 17:16 SAOMETAR.RAP /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   6896772 Sep 25 17:16 SYNOPTIC.RAP /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   4896388 Sep 25 17:16 TERMFCST.RAP /home/mcidas/savedata
54595220 bytes in 5 files

The .RAT files will get created as data comes in and gets decoded.

I am now seeing GRID files get decoded:

% dmap.k GRID
PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME     DIRECTORY
---- --------- ------------ ------------ ---------
-rw-      3966 Jun 22  2002 GRID.DAT     /home/mcidas/solaris/data
-rw-      1088 Jun 22  2002 GRID.PROG    /home/mcidas/solaris/data
-rw-  97576992 Sep 25 17:18 GRID5008     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  45397452 Sep 25 17:25 GRID5009     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  17647032 Sep 25 12:32 GRID5158     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  14121636 Sep 25 12:32 GRID5168     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  14121636 Sep 25 12:32 GRID5178     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   6735092 Sep 25 12:26 GRID5188     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw- 227582472 Sep 25 14:51 GRID5268     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw- 179362156 Sep 25 17:07 GRID5278     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw- 412432768 Sep 25 13:57 GRID5598     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw- 370982524 Sep 25 14:32 GRID5608     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  18318536 Sep 25 12:32 GRID5808     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  14793140 Sep 25 12:31 GRID5818     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  14793140 Sep 25 12:32 GRID5828     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   7070844 Sep 25 12:26 GRID5838     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  91367636 Sep 25 15:56 GRID5858     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  73094692 Sep 25 16:41 GRID5868     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  45043384 Sep 25 16:44 GRID5878     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  18023916 Sep 25 16:53 GRID5888     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  18131756 Sep 25 16:54 GRID5898     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  30237732 Sep 25 14:52 GRID6198     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  15464644 Sep 25 15:01 GRID6208     /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   2666292 Sep 25 17:20 GRID6308     /home/mcidas/savedata


% dmap.k MDXX
PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME DIRECTORY
---- --------- ------------ -------- ---------
-rw-  45588936 Sep 25 14:08 MDXX0007 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-  46609136 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0008 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   6110200 Sep 25 16:57 MDXX0018 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-    158696 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0019 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   1458016 Sep 25 16:58 MDXX0028 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-    112800 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0029 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   4984888 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0037 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   4993852 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0038 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   8511120 Sep 25 17:01 MDXX0057 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   8855016 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0058 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-    187756 Sep 25 12:01 MDXX0059 /home/mcidas/savedata
-rw-   5964432 Sep 25 17:11 MDXX0068 /home/mcidas/savedata
133534848 bytes in 12 files

and so on.

Please let me know if you see something else amiss.

What remains to be looked into is the creation of McIDAS MD files of
FSL wind profiler data.  I would say the same about NLDN lightning
data, but I see that you don't have an NLDN action in ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf.
blizzard is requesting ANY ".*" from tornado.  Does tornado get
the FSL data?  How about the NLDN data?

Tom

>From address@hidden Fri Sep 26 08:07:17 2003

Hello, Tom:


Thanks Tom!  "blizzard" is requesting data from rainbow.  "rainbow" gets 
data from thelma, but no NLDN data:

request WMO|FSL2 ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
request UNIWISC ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
request NIMAGE ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
request FNEXRAD "^(rad/|pnga2area)" thelma.ucar.edu
request NEXRAD ".*" thelma.ucar.edu


Hsie