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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. 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

GRIB2NAV

lists the navigation parameters necessary for entering new GRIB2 datasets

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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