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Re: 20010314: LDM installation support (cont.) (fwd)

Simon Kissler wrote:
> 
> Anne,
> 
> Thank you for looking at the setup. I am planning on putting the
> housekeeping stuff in place once I have a general idea of how much
> diskspace x-days of data consume. Now for a different question and if I
> need to submit this separately, please let me know.
> 
> I don't know if this got all the way to you but the way this is planned
> for setup is that we have one machine (server) ingest the data and
> multiple lab type machines use the data. From the information on the site
> it would seem that ADDE would be the best choice for this, however, I
> can't seem to figure out how to set up the clients to do this. I have
> mcidas-x installed and working on the clients, however, my attempts at
> setting up the data routing appear to fail miserably. :)
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Simon
> 

Hi Simon,

No, I had not heard about your desired configuration, but it sounds very
reasonable.  I am forwarding your mail to Tom Yoksas, our MCIDAS person,
who can probably help you get this set up.

Enjoy your data!

Anne
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> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > I logged on and looked around (and changed the password).  Although I
> > did not spend the time to confirm that all products you were requesting
> > were being received, otherwise almost everything looked fine.  The file
> > structure matches our default.  ldmd.conf and pqact.conf looked good.
> > Initially there were a few write problems in the log, but they seemed to
> > have gone away after March 17, so I guess there's no problem there.
> >
> > Although as user 'ucarsupp' I could not confirm it, it appears to me
> > that you have not scheduled any of the cron-related housekeeping tasks.
> > See  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmConfigInstallList.html,
> > and look especially at the sections "Configure a failover site",
> > "Configure the LDM Statistics", "Rotate the LDM logs", and "Purge old
> > data".  The last three will keep the *.stats files from piling up in the
> > logs directory, keep the logs from getting too big, and keep the data
> > from filing up your disk.  And failover is helpful in case your upstream
> > feed goes down for a while.
> >
> > Otherwise, good work!  Let me know if you have any questions or notice
> > any possible problems.
> >
> > Anne
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