RE: LEAD data sets

• To: Tom Baltzer <tbaltzer@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: LEAD data sets
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:13:13 -0700 (MST)

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Tom Baltzer wrote:

Hi Robb,

Thanks much for putting together the pqact.conf file for the LEAD data
sets...  of course now that means I have questions for you about it :-)
I am working my way through the 7 sets in an effort to get them all flowing
into the LEAD testbed as well as to try to understand them better.

Beginning w/METAR data I note that we don't seem to be getting it.  I
believe that the ldmd.conf entry for it is as follows:

request WMO     ".*"    thelma.ucar.edu PRIMARY

(Is METAR part of IDS, DDS, PPS or all 3?)

Tom,

The feedtype is first part of the pqact entry, so it's  DDS|IDS

I believe that the pqact.conf entrys for it are:

DDS|IDS ^S(A....|P....|XUS8.) .... ([0-3][0-9])
        PIPE    decoders/metar2nc
        etc/metar.cdl
        data/pub/decoded/netcdf/surface
        (\2:yy)(\2:mm)

and:

DDS|IDS        ^S(A....|P....|XUS8.) .... ([0-3][0-9])
       PIPE    decoders/metar2nc.new
       etc/metar.cdl.new
       data/pub/decoded/netcdf/surface/metar
       (\2:yyyy)(\2:mm)

(NOTE: we commented this second one out for now as we don't have the
metar2nc.new decoder - where do we find that?  Also how is it different than
metar2nc?)

However when I look into data/pub/decoded/netcdf there is no surface
directory and thus no evidence that we're getting the METAR data.

The metar2nc.new is prototype for new output format with new variable
names.  At this time forget about it

I compare with ldmd.conf and pqact.conf on motherload and it all seems like
it "should" work, but it's not.

Any ideas?

Are you set up to receive data from thelma?  There has to be an ALLOW
entry in the ldmd.conf for your machine name(IP) on thelma.  You can test
it on your machine by using notifyme, ie

% notifyme -vl - -f "IDS|DDS"

It should show the product that are arriving on the screen. Also, you can
test what products are arriving on thelma by:

% notifyme -vl - -f "IDS|DDS" -h thelma.ucar.edu

What's your machine name?

Robb...

Thanks!!
Tom.

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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