McIDAS-XCD Administrative Commands

This chapter contains command documentation for the system configuration of McIDAS-XCD, including administrative commands for file management and data availability. All of the user commands for accessing conventional data are distributed with McIDAS-X. See the McIDAS User's Guide for more information.

Only authorized administrative staff should use these commands. To run them, you must be logged on as oper. If the error message "Permission Denied" is displayed, your logon does not correspond to the logon in the installation procedure. See Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring McIDAS-XCD, for more information.

The administrative commands are listed in alphabetical order below with a short description of their function.

BILDTEXT	builds the rapid access pointer and text files
CHKERR	lists the output from an error file
CIRCUIT	data circuit utility
DATACQ	plots data availability from MD files
DATARECV	plots MD file data on a multiple-panel display
DECINFO	decoder utility
DELWXT	deletes weather text and index files
IDGROUP	ID group utility
IDMON	station ID monitoring utility
NMCAMT	lists the number of real-time grids received
QRTMDG	deletes real-time grid or MD files
SIGCO	significant level upper air storage utility
STARTXCD	starts the ingestor and decoder programs
STAT	lists the decoder and ingestor status
SUBGRD	creates geographic subsectors of Mercator grids
UPDIDS	updates the station reporting list
WMORTE	maintains a data routing table of WMO headers
gribadmin	Unix command for managing the MySQL database used by the GRIB server
statdisp	Unix command for displaying the status window
xcdadmin	Unix command for managing the XCD status and the log file
xcdscour	Unix command for deleting real-time GRIB or BUFR files, and their associated database entries.

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