I had very bad experiences in the past with automated failover (the old
ldmfail program caused me lots of headaches) so I guess I have a natural
adversion to it, but I should try with the new builtin failover tools.
Actually, did it handle it on your system? Thelma is still up and feeding
data at this moment.
notifyme -h thelma.ucar.edu -o 3000 -v -l /dev/tty -f DDPLUS
Nov 12 00:43:55 notifyme[15654]: Starting Up: thelma.ucar.edu:
20031111235355.763 TS_ENDT {{DDPLUS, ".*"}}
Nov 12 00:43:55 notifyme[15654]: Connected to upstream LDM-5
Nov 12 00:43:55 notifyme[15654]: NOTIFYME(thelma.ucar.edu): OK
Nov 12 00:43:57 notifyme[15654]: 259 20031111235357.379 IDS|DDPLUS
26419265 SAUS80 KWBC 120000
Nov 12 00:43:57 notifyme[15654]: 124 20031111235357.379 IDS|DDPLUS
26419266 SAUZ31 RUMS 112300 RRA
Nov 12 00:43:58 notifyme[15654]: 134 20031111235357.380 IDS|DDPLUS
26419267 SXUS51 KWOH 112349 /pRRSUNR
Nov 12 00:43:58 notifyme[15654]: 214 20031111235357.388 IDS|DDPLUS
26419268 SRUS73 KWOH 112349
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David Wojtowicz, Sr. Research Programmer, Sysadmin
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences / Computer Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
davidw@xxxxxxxx (217) 333-8390
----- Original Message -----
Cc: <ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:38 PM
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, David Wojtowicz wrote:
>
> >flood.atmos.uiuc.edu has failed over (atm.geo for CONDUIT and
> >unidata2.ssec for others) although it appears that thelma is still up at
> >the moment.
>
> I am curious why you use the 'old'(?) failover method of participating in
> the IDD via ldmfail or manual failover. I am using the 'PRIMARY' and
> 'SECONDARY' keywords in my ldmd.conf and LDM handled the thelma outage
> just fine AFAIK.. (Very nice UNIDATA!, btw)
>
> Just curious...
>
> Thanks,
> Daryl
>
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>
