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20030703: UGa upgrading to latest LDM-6 (cont.)

>From: Thomas Mote <address@hidden>
>Organization: UGa
>Keywords: 200307031521.h63FLfLd024002 LDM-6 rtstats

Hi Tom,

>Tom... See a segment from my ldmd.conf file
>below (with pieces patched in from over the
>past few years). Some if this is probably now
>obsolete. Let me know if this doesn't look right.

OK, comments below.

>I need to read back over the site managers
>guide. It has been soooo easy to upgrade the
>LDM that I don't even usually go back to look
>at this ;-)

Well, the Site Manager's Guide has not yet been upgraded to
discuss the differences in LDM-6, so don't feel bad about not
having read it recently.

The following is how I would "tune" your ldmd.conf file _after_
making a backup of it.  I have comments and questions after this...


###############################################################################
#
exec    "pqbinstats"
exec    "xcd_run MONITOR"
exec    "rtstats -f FNEXRAD|FSL2|NLDN|MCIDAS -h rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu"
exec    "pqact -i 2"
exec    "pqsurf -p ^S(A....|P....|XUS8.|XUS91) - q /data/pqsurf.pq 
/usr/local/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf"
exec    "pdinrsd 3333"
exec    "pdinrsd 3334"

#
###############################################################################
# Request Entries
###############################################################################
#
# LDM5 servers request data from Data Sources
#
#       request <feedset> <pattern> <hostname pattern>
#
#request WMO ".*" uni0.unidata.ucar.edu
#
#
# NOAAPORT feeds
#
request WMO|NNEXRAD     ".*"    noaaport.ggy.uga.edu

#
# NEXRAD Level III composites from Unidata
#
request FNEXRAD "^(rad/|pnga2area)"     atm.geo.nsf.gov

#
# NLDN - NLDN Lightning data from SUNY Albany
#
request NLDN    ".*"    striker.atmos.albany.edu

#
# FSL2    - NOAA/FSL wind profiler data
# UNIWISC - Unidata-Wisconsin GOES image sectors from U Wisc/SSEC - Unidata
#
request FSL2|UNIWISC    "^pnga2area Q[01]"      pluto.met.fsu.edu

#
# Backup feed requests
#

# request WMO ".*" pluto.met.fsu.edu
# request HDS ".*" pluto.met.fsu.edu
# request NNEXRAD "/p...(FFC|GSP|BMX|JGX)" stokes.metr.ou.edu
# request NNEXRAD "SDUS5. K... ....(0|3). /pN0R..." stokes.metr.ou.edu
#
###############################################################################


Comments and Questions:

1) I removed your pqexpire line since it is not needed in LDM-6

2) you had a request for NLDN from a machine called 'noaaport'.  NLDN
   should only be available from SUNY Albany.

3) with LDM-6, please use fully qualified hostnames in feed requests
   (i.e., don't use machine aliases and avoid use of IP addresses
   if possible).  The reason is not because they don't work, but, rather
   it has to do with the reporting of real time statistics.  The
   statistics plotting routines use the full machine name to find out
   if it is also reporting statistics.

4) presumably, 'noaaport' is the name of some NOAAPORT machine at
   UGa.  You should use the fully qualified name for data requests
   to it.

5) a comment.  In LDM-6 each request line results in a separate rpc.ldmd
   on both local machine AND on the machine it is requesting data from.
   The user's job is now to split the feeds where appropriate while
   accumulating feeds into the fewest number of request lines.  The
   way that this is done depends on the volume of the datastreams.
   
6) LDM-6 recognizes the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream primarily as
   UNIWISC.  MCIDAS is still recognized, but we would rather folks
   use UNIWISC since it is more descriptive of the feed.
   
To view the time series plots of real time statistics being reported by
cacimbo check out:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/rtstats/siteindex.shtml?cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu

Tom