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  • Subject: [McIDAS #NJA-425146]: Interesting in McIDAS X Free
  • Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:52:17 -0700
Hi Boris,

Thanks for providing the needed access information for your machine.  It
was crucial in getting things working.

Here is what I found and the actions I took:

1) the reason that setting up the remote ADDE server wasn't working:

   The script /home/mcidas/mcidas2009.sh runs a command ('service xinetd 
status')
   and parses its output to determine if xinetd is running.  It does this by
   looking for the word 'isrunning' in the output.  The problem is that you
   have your machine configured to use Spanish, not English, so the return
   of this command was not what was expected.

   I made things work by modifying /home/mcidas/mcinet2009.sh to check for
   the output of 'service xinetd status' in Spanish.

2) the next step in getting remote serving of data available using ADDE
   was to adjust the firewall on your machine -- I opened up access
   through port 112, the port that ADDE uses

3) configuring the 'mcidas' account to be able to read the imagery
   files in the ~boris/$MCDATA directory and subdirectories

   I had to change the read/write/execute permissions for several
   directories so that 'mcidas' could find and read AREA files.  The
   directories changed to have the 755 permissions were:

   /home/boris/mcidas
   /home/boris/mcidas/data
   /home/boris/mcidas/03ABRIL
   /home/boris/mcidas/02ABRIL
   /home/boris/mcidas/01ABRIL

   I also changed the read/write/execute permissions on the AREA files
   in the above directories to be 664.

   NB: when you create new sets of images in /home/boris/mcidas/data
   (e.g., /home/boris/mcidas/data/04ABRIL, etc.), you _must_ make sure
   that the directories that the AREA files are included in have
   755 permissions, AND you must make sure that the AREA files have
   644 permissions.  If this is not clear, simply look at the
   existing directories/files under /home/boris/mcidas/data.

4) finally, I setup some ADDE datasets for the data you have already
   gathered:

   STORM/SND01ABRIL
   STORM/SND02ABRIL
   STORM/SND03ABRIL

   I verified that the images in these datasets are accessible from other
   machines by looking at them in McIDAS on my workstation:

   <me on my workstation>
   cd $MCDATA
   <in McIDAS>
   DATALOC ADD STORM CANTINFLAS.ATMOSFCU.UNAM.MX

   DSINFO IMAGE STORM

        Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: STORM

Name         NumPos   Content
------------ ------   --------------------------------------
SND01ABRIL   99999    GOES Sounder imagery for 1 April
SND02ABRIL   99999    GOES Sounder imagery for 2 April
SND03ABRIL   99999    GOES Sounder imagery for 3 April

DSINFO -- done

   IMGLIST STORM/SND03ABRIL.ALL
Image file directory listing for:STORM/SND03ABRIL
 Pos Satellite/         Date       Time      Center   Band(s)
     sensor                                 Lat  Lon
 --- -------------  ------------  --------  ---- ---- ------------
   1  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  00:46:00    20   70 1-19
   2  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  01:20:00     3   37 1-19
   3  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  01:46:00    20   70 1-19
   4  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  02:20:00    15   37 1-19
   5  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  02:46:00    20   70 1-19
   6  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  03:20:00     4   67 1-19
   7  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  06:46:00    20   70 1-19
   8  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  07:20:00     3   37 1-19
   9  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  07:46:00    20   70 1-19
  10  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  08:20:00    16   37 1-19
  11  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  08:46:00    20   70 1-19
  12  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  09:20:00     4   67 1-19
  13  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  09:46:00    20   70 1-19
  14  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  10:20:00     4   67 1-19
  15  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  10:46:00    20   70 1-19
  16  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  11:20:00     4   67 1-19
  17  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  11:46:00    20   70 1-19
  18  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  12:20:00     4   67 1-19
  19  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  12:46:00    20   70 1-19
  20  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  13:20:00     3   37 1-19
  21  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  13:46:00    20   70 1-19
  22  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  14:20:00    16   37 1-19
  23  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  14:47:00    20   70 1-19
  24  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  15:20:00     4   67 1-19
  25  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  15:47:00    20   70 1-19
  26  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  16:20:00     4   67 1-19
  27  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  16:47:00    20   70 1-19
  28  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  17:20:00     4   67 1-19
  29  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  17:46:00    20   70 1-19
  30  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  18:20:00     4   67 1-19
  31  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  18:46:00    20   70 1-19
  32  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  19:20:00     3   37 1-19
  33  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  19:46:00    20   70 1-19
  34  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  20:20:00    15   37 1-19
  35  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  20:46:00    20   70 1-19
  36  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  21:20:00     4   67 1-19
  37  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  21:46:00    20   70 1-19
  38  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  22:20:00     4   67 1-19
  39  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  22:46:00    20   70 1-19
  40  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  23:20:00     4   67 1-19
  41  G-12 SND       3 APR 04094  23:46:00    20   70 1-19
IMGLIST: done

Comments:

- remote access through ADDE is now available on your machine

- you will access the data in the datasets I setup in McIDAS-V
  in the same way that you learned for the SSEC Data Center

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NJA-425146
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed