LDM Reference

The following HTML pages comprise a reference document for the Unidata LDM and also underlie the LDM Tutorial. If you know what you're looking for, then look here; otherwise, use the tutorial.

Table of Contents

• The LDM Version Identifier

• The Data-Product Abstraction

• LDM Feedtypes

• Runtime Structure of a Generic LDM System

• Programs of the LDM System

• The LDM Product-Queue ldm.pq

• LDM Behavior

• LDM Protocol Messages

• The LDM User

• Installing, Configuring, and Activating the LDM System

  • Platform Requirements

  • Preinstallation Steps

  • Installing from Source-Code

  • Configuring an LDM Installation

  • Trade-offs in Configuring the LDM

  • Activating the LDM Installation

• Running Multiple LDM-s on the Same Computer

• LDM Clusters

• Configuration-Files

  • The LDM Configuration-File, ldmd.conf

  • The pqact Configuration-File, pqact.conf

  • The scour Configuration-File, scour.conf

• Extended Regular Expressions

• Starting and Stopping the LDM System

• The LDM Logfile

  • Format and interpretation

  • Rotation and purging.

• Monitoring the LDM System

• LDM Tips

• User-Support Resources

• Glossary/Index