[McIDAS #PYR-135620]: McIDAS

Hi Jennie,

re: install McIDAS on your machine
> GREAT!  Thanks so much.  I hope the workshop went well, and belated Birthday
> wishes for many happy returns of the day.

The workshop went OK, thanks.  And, after I was able to leave the office on
Friday (workshop, AMS abstract creation/submission/etc.), it was nice.  We
went to Fraser/Winter Park to join Tammy and Mike for some R&R.  Three days
of relaxation and fun.

re: need the full name and IP of your machine
> The machine is livos.evsc.virginia.edu (128.143.42.219)

Great, thanks.

re: which IDD datastreams will you want to process
> I need to look at this.  I would like the IDS/DDPLUS, the HRS, but as I
> recall that is huge, and I would to try to configure it to only get some of
> the hi-res grids (that said, this machine should be wide open).

The HRS datasetream contents are substantial, but not huge.  What you are 
probably
thinking about is the amount of disk space needed to decode the model data into
McIDAS GRID format.  What I propose to do is install the McIDAS XCD GRIB filer,
not the XCD GRID decoder.  The disk space used is _much_ less, and the access
to the data is _much_ quicker.

In order to setup XCD GRIB filing, I need for all of the MySQL stuff to be 
installed
on your machine:

mysql-client
mysql-server
mysql-devel

I found the mysql-client stuff, but not the server or development environments. 
 I
have been doing some web searching and see that I need the RedHat Network login
information to be able to access the appropriate MySQL distributions for your
machine (which is running RedHat Enterprise WS 4).  Can you give me the user 
name
and login for the RHN so I can get the needed packages?  If not, please get hold
of a system administrator and ask him/her to install all of the following:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0152.html

mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm
mysql-bench-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm
mysql-devel-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm
mysql-server-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm

The first two are installed, but the development and server stuff is not.

> I guess the
> UNIWISC is where I can get the GOES, and GOES Derived Product images, right?

Yes,.

> And I need to look at the radar data streams, I have never received them,
> and don't really know what I want (though I would love to have radar data in
> McIDAS, having never really used it there before).

You have a choice of the NEXRAD Level III products for some/all of the 160 or
so NEXRADs, and/or the FNEXRAD NEXRAD Level III composites that we create.
McIDAS does not support use of the full volume scan data in the NEXRAD2 feed.

> Which is easier, dropping things later or adding things later?

They are equivalent.

> Or maybe I
> should just rely on ADDE for some fields?  (Not grids and GOES, which I will
> continue to want).

You can, of course do this.  You may want to ingest some of the data locally
and serve it yourself so you get the best performance.  Again, it is not
hard to stop getting/processing data later if you decide you don't want/need
to do it.

> We have another machine here, associated with the State Climatology Office
> that I am sort of taking over responsibility for (we no longer have a State
> Climatologist, Pat Michaels just left UVA a month ago!  This will be
> good/better for me in the long run.).  We would like to set that machine up
> to support all of the radar products.  Would I be able to set things up to
> store all the data on one machine (server, like livos), and then pass it to
> the other machine (don't know if this would be via ADDE or some other
> ldm-splitting process or something like that??)

The easiest thing to do would be to setup the LDM on livos to ingest, process,
and relay the data.

> Sorry for all the questions, I don't want to slow down getting McIDAS setup
> on this (livos) machine.

No worries.  The thing I need now is MySQL.  After that, the installation should
go very quickly.  FYI, I just setup Clint's machine yesterday afternoon to 
process
all data that was possible to process for McIDAS.  I also setup his ADDE remote
server since he will be opening the machine for general use.

> Thanks so much!!!! I will drop the other info into your personal box.

Thanks, got the info.

Please send the RHN (RedHat Network) information so I can get MySQL installed.
After that, everything will go quickly.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PYR-135620
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed