On Mon, 7 May 2012, Gerry Creager wrote:
As some of you have seen on social media, I'm moving from Texas A&M
University to OU/CIMMS, to work with NSSL. My departure is imminent, but I'm
trying to get some things cleaned up.
A&M's transition to a cluster environment similar to IDD.unicata.ucar.edu is
virtually ready to go. I expect to put it up Tueasday 8 MAY) afternoon, and
ask a few folks to test against it. I expect no problems, so I think it'll go
off smoothly, and be ready for a general transition this week.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
It's not gonna be bigibird and sasquatch anymore, because I've opted for less
"cute" names, such as ldm.tamu.edu and idd.tamu.edu
Please transition now to idd.tamu.edu. That cname is pointed now at both
bigbird and sasquatch. When we go operational with the cluster, it will be
moved to point at the director node of the cluster, and NOT to the individual
old servers. Part of the importance of this is that, at the time of the
transition, bigbird and sasquatch will stop accepting connections save from
the cluster, and solely on an internal interface and discrete port. These two
machines will serve to provide the back-end services to the cluster and
should keep us pretty well provisioned for data.
I've been asked to continue to support the LDM cluster and AWIPS2
infrastructure here, and I intend to do so. That said, please send problem
notes and feed requests to tamu-ldm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that our whole team
can see them and we can act as soon as possible.
I expect I'll remain on this list, as I can envision keeping an LDM system
going although the NSSL has plenty of data coming in. Still, I've gotten to
where I like letting a pqact trigger do the heavy lifting for me!
NIU has switched over to idd.tamu.edu successfully, except for our
NOAAport ingest server; that remains allowed for bigbird and sasquatch,
since those are/will remain your ingest machines.
Gilbert
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