Hi Greg,
I have a feeling it's trying to get data from both sources and trying to
balance between them.
It would be nice if you could select a preferred source and a secondary
source that you only go to if your preferred source goes down for a
specified amount of time.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Greg Trotter <gtrotter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have an LDM server that is connected to two upstreams – one is my
> NOAAPORT ingester on my local network, and one is a backup site at a remote
> location. I have both listed in my ldmd.conf, with the local server listed
> first, and the request patterns are identical.
>
>
>
> Looking at the queue, it looks like all is well – the origin on all the
> products is from our local NOAAPORT ingest server. If I look at the network
> traffic on that server, however, I see a lot of data coming in from the
> remote server – almost as much as we are bringing in from the local server.
> I theorize that the downstream doesn’t see it locally, and requests it from
> the remote upstream, but by the time it arrives, it’s come in from the
> local upstream? I can’t find any other reason that we’d be having that much
> traffic from an upstream LDM that never appears as an origin for the
> products in our queue.
>
>
>
> Is there something I am doing wrong? Clearly, I’d prefer not to use that
> much bandwidth if we don’t have to. Is there a way to have it only hit the
> remote upstream if the local is unavailable?
>
>
>
> Here’s the relevant part of my ldmd.conf:
>
>
>
>
>
> REQUEST ANY ".*" <IP of local noaaport ingester>
>
> REQUEST ANY ".*" <IP of remote noaaport ingester>
>
>
>
> *Greg Trotter*
>
> System Administrator
>
> Weather Decision Technologies, Inc
>
> 201 David L Boren Blvd Suite 270
>
> Norman, Oklahoma 73072
>
>
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