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[McIDAS #YSZ-272620]: need help to setup a McIDAS ADDE server
- Subject: [McIDAS #YSZ-272620]: need help to setup a McIDAS ADDE server
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:13:02 -0700
Hi Hsie,
re: slightly modify your testing
> Do as you suggested. Make no difference.
OK. I did not expect a change; I wanted to make sure, however,
to point out that one should always run McIDAS commands from his/her
$MCDATA directory.
re: Questions
> squall:[70]% cd /home/mcidas/linux
> squall:[71]% ls -l
> total 128
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 admin
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 12288 Jan 24 11:21 bin
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mcidas unidata 20480 Jan 24 14:10 data
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 etc
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 12288 May 2 2006 help
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 inc
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 include
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 lib
> drwxrwxr-x 4 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 man
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 savedata
> drwxrwxr-x 6 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 tcl
> drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 Jan 25 01:20 workdata
> squall:[72]% cd /home/hsie
> squall:[73]% ls -ld mcidas
> drwxr-xr-x 3 hsie al4 4096 Dec 3 09:17 mcidas
> squall:[74]% cd mcidas
> squall:[75]% ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hsie al4 4096 Jan 25 12:45 data
> squall:[76]%
This all look correct.
re: environment variables needed for McIDAS
> MCHOME=/home/mcidas/linux
> MCDATA=/home/hsie/mcidas/data
> MCPATH=/home/hsie/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/linux/data:/home/mcidas/linux/help
> MCGUI=/home/mcidas/linux/bin
> MCTABLE_READ=/home/hsie/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT;/home/mcidas/linux/data/ADDESITE.TXT
> MCTABLE_WRITE=/home/hsie/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT
> MCCOMPRESS=TRUE
The only change I suggest here is to change MCCOMPRESS from TRUE to GZIP. This
is optional since your machine has 'compress' and 'uncompress' installed and
both are accessible to the 'mcidas' user through its defined PATH.
re: recommendation to run current McIDAS release
> I had been using this machine for last summer's field experiment. All
> the softwares I need are already installed in this machine (LDM,
> McIDAS-X, GEMPAK). The 2005 version will serve my purpose.
Very good.
I logged onto squall this morning to snoop around. Here is what I found:
- as you noted in your original email, I can run DATALOC (dataloc.k) with
no problems as 'mcidas'
- since I couldn't become the user 'hsie' to see what may be going on in
that account, I became 'ldm' and ran some tests there:
<login as 'ldm'>
cd /home/ldm
mkdir mcidas
mkdir mcidas/data
cd /home/ldm/mcidas/data
squall:[59]% dataloc.k LIST
Group Name Server IP Address
-------------------- ----------------------------------------
AMRC UWAMRC.SSEC.WISC.EDU
BLIZZARD ADDE.UCAR.EDU
CIMSS SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
GINICOMP SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
GINIEAST SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
GINIWEST SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
GOESEAST UNIDATA2.SSEC.WISC.EDU
ME7 IO.SCA.UQAM.CA
MYDATA <LOCAL-DATA>
NEXRCOMP SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
PUB GP16.SSD.NESDIS.NOAA.GOV
RTGINI <LOCAL-DATA>
RTGRIDS SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
RTIMAGES SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
RTNEXRAD SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
RTPTSRC SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
RTWXTEXT SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV
TOPO <LOCAL-DATA>
<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done
As you can see, a DATALOC command run as 'ldm' works as expected. This
tells me that the problem you encountered trying to run McIDAS as 'hsie'
is related to some setting in the 'hsie' account, or that you found and
fixed the problem after sending me your reply yesterday (did you find a
problem?).
So, without access to the 'hsie' account, I can proceed no further on
troubleshooting the problem you reported.
Next:
While logged into squall as 'ldm', I decided to see if I could access
data in the various datasets that are defined. These attempts met
with varying success. Here is one example of a failure:
<logged in as 'ldm'>
setenv MCPATH
/home/ldm/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/linux/data:/home/mcidas/linux/help
cd /home/ldm/mcidas/data
squall:[60]% imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR
Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR
imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria
imglist.k: done
The inability to list RTIMAGES images indicated that there was some problem
in the RTIMAGES dataset definition or there were no files to list. The same
comment applies to GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP, etc. I was, however, able
to list out images from the NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT dataset:
squall:[77]% imglist.k NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT FORM=ALL
Image file directory listing for:NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT
Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s)
sensor Lat Lon
--- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------
301 RADAR 26 JAN 08026 16:34:00 TWX 1
imglist.k: done
A quick check shows that you are writing images to a different directory
structure than is specified for some of the ADDE datasets:
<as 'mcidas'>
cd $MCDATA
dsserve.k LIST GINIEAST
...
GINIEAST/GE4KIR IMAGE GINI GINI 4 km 10.7 um East CONU
S
DIRFILE=/wrk/data1/ldm/sat/gini/EAST-CONUS/4km/IR/IR
...
This entry, for example, tells McIDAS to look in the
/wrk/data1/ldm/sat/gini/EAST-CONUS/4km/IR
directory for GOES-East IR (10.7 um) images from NOAAPORT (IDD feedtype NIMAGE).
The ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf action, on the other hand, is writing those images as
follows:
# Zlib compressed NOAAPORT GOES-East/West GINI images
NIMAGE ^satz/ch[0-9]/.*/(.*)/([12][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([01][0-9])([0-3][0-9])
([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9])/(.*)/(.*km)/
PIPE -close
decoder/bin/zlibg2gini -vl logs/png.log
data/sat/gini/\8/\9/\1/\1_\2\3\4\5_\6\7
The ~ldm/data directory is a link:
squall:[51]% ls -alt data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 17 Jun 20 2007 data -> /export/data1/ldm
If you intend to keep the LDM decoding actions the same, you will need to
modify the ADDE dataset definitions in the 'mcidas' account.
Also, your ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file does not have any action(s) to process
UNIWISC imagery (aka MCIDAS LDM feedtype), so access to the RTIMAGES
datasets will always result in messages like:
squall:[56]% imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR
Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR
imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria
imglist.k: done
On the bright side, data from the RTPTSRC and RTGRIDS datasets are accessible
and look correct:
squall:[59]% ptlist.k RTPTSRC/PTSRCS FORM=FILE ALL
Pos Description Schema NRows NCols Proj# Created
DataDate
------ -------------------------------- ------ ----- ----- ----- -------
--------
4 SAO/METAR data for 24 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008024
2008024
5 SAO/METAR data for 25 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008024
2008025
6 SAO/METAR data for 26 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008025
2008026
14 Mand. Level RAOB for 24 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008024
2008024
15 Mand. Level RAOB for 25 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008024
2008025
16 Mand. Level RAOB for 26 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008025
2008026
24 Sig. Level RAOB for 24 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008024
2008024
25 Sig. Level RAOB for 25 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008024
2008025
26 Sig. Level RAOB for 26 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008025
2008026
34 SHIP/BUOY data for 24 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008024
2008024
35 SHIP/BUOY data for 25 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008025
2008025
36 SHIP/BUOY data for 26 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008026
2008026
54 SYNOPTIC data for 24 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008024
2008024
55 SYNOPTIC data for 25 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008024
2008025
56 SYNOPTIC data for 26 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008025
2008026
ptlist.k: Done
squall:[60]% dsinfo.k G RTGRIDS
Dataset Names of Type: GRID in Group: RTGRIDS
Name NumPos Content
------------ ------ --------------------------------------
ALL 1210 Real-Time Grids
AVN 200 Real-Time AVN Grids
ECMWF 10 Real-Time ECMWF Grids
ETA 120 Real-Time ETA Grids
GFS 200 Real-Time GFS/AVN Grids
MDR 10 Real-Time MDR/AVN Grids
MISC 10 Other Real-Time Grids
MRF 200 Real-Time MRF Grids
MRF-UW 10 MRF Grids in UW stream
NAM 120 Real-Time NAM Grids
NGM 40 Real-Time NGM Grids
NGM-UW 10 NGM Grids in UW stream
RUC 80 Real-Time RUC Grids
UKMT 110 Real-Time UK Met Grids
DSINFO -- done
squall:[61]% grdlist.k RTGRIDS/GFS
Dataset position 5 Directory Title= ALL 00Z GFS 0 HR<=VT<=24 HR
PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO
---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ----
T 850 MB 25 JAN 08025 00:00:00 GFS 12 25 JAN 08025 12:00:00 1 MERC
Number of grids listed = 1
GRDLIST - done
Wrap-up:
- the McIDAS v2005d installation on squall is working correctly
- the ADDE remote server on squall is working correctly (I even tested this from
the 'mcidas' account on cirrus)
- I can not explain why DATALOC (dataloc.k) hangs from the 'hsie' account; it
works correctly from the 'mcidas' and 'ldm' accounts on squall. I could
troubleshoot further if I had login access as 'hsie' on squall.
- there is still work to be done to process UNIWISC imagery in the LDM if
you actually want those images
- you will need to either adjust your LDM pqact.conf actions for NIMAGE data
or adjust your ADDE dataset definitions if you want to access imagery
in the GINIEAST, GINIWEST, and GINICOMP datasets
Cheers,
Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YSZ-272620
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed