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[McIDAS #JCY-277961]: McIdas ADDE server problem

Hi Mark,

re:
> To address some of your message, I had installed the xinetd package after
> the install and it is running.  /etc/xinetd.d/mcidas exists and seems to
> pass things off correctly but I'm not 100% sure of that.
> 
> # chkconfig --list | grep xinetd
> xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> xinetd based services:
> 
> # ps auxw |grep xinetd
> root      7945  0.0  0.0  22076   328 ?        Ss   Jun21   0:00 xinetd
> -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
> 

The 'xinetd' setup looks good.

I verified that ADDE is correctly running on omega and it is accessible
from kangaroo:

<as 'mcidas' on kangaroo>

cd $MCDATA
dataloc.k ADD RTIMAGES omega.lsc.vsc.edu

        Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: RTIMAGES

Name         NumPos   Content
------------ ------   --------------------------------------
ANTARCTIC    99999    Antarctic IR Composite
EDFLOATER-I     10    Educational Floater
EDFLOATER-II    10    Educational Floater II
GE-39        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric Short IR
GE-CO2       99999    GOES-East Hemispheric CO2
GE-IR        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric IR
GE-IRTOPO       10    GOES-East IR/TOPO Composite
GE-VIS       99999    GOES-East Hemispheric VIS
GE-VISTOPO      10    GOES-East VIS/TOPO Composite
GE-WV        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric H2O
GEW-IR          10    GOES-East/West IR Composite
GEW-IRTOPO      10    GOES-East/West IR/TOPO Composite
GEW-VIS         10    GOES-East/West VIS Composite
GEW-VISTOPO     10    GOES-East/West VIS/TOPO Composite
GEW-WV          10    GOES-East/West H2O Composite
GW-12        99999    GOES-West Western Long IR
GW-39        99999    GOES-West Western Short IR
GW-IR        99999    GOES-West Western US IR
GW-IRTOPO       10    GOES-West IR/TOPO Composite
GW-VIS       99999    GOES-West Western US VIS
GW-VISTOPO      10    GOES-West VIS/TOPO Composite
GW-WV        99999    GOES-West Western US H2O
MDR          99999    Manually Digitized Radar
MDRTOPO         10    MDR/TOPO Composite
MOLL-IR      99999    Mollweide Composite IR
MOLL-IRTOPO     10    Mollweide IR/TOPO Composite
MOLL-WV      99999    Mollweide Composite H2O
RESFLOATER      10    Research Floater

DSINFO -- done

This one step demonstrates that port 112 is open on omega (to kangaroo, at
least); that ADDE is listening for connections on port 112; and that the 
environment
needed to run McIDAS commands is in-place (existence of the file ~mcidas/.mcenv
on omega).  All excellent signs!  What doesn't work is access from outside
machines:

<as 'mcidas' on my development machine (a virtual machine running CentOS 6.2 
x86_64)>

cd $MCDATA
dataloc.k ADD RTIMAGES omega.lsc.vsc.edu
dsinfo.k IMAGE RTIMAGES

DSINFO: Cannot contact server (connect() failed)
    No Datasets found of Type: IMAGE in Group: RTIMAGES
DSINFO -- done

So, if you want your ADDE server opened to domains outside of lsc.vsc.edu,
you will have change/work with campus network folks to change a firewall
setting.

The next thing I did was to test if you have any data in the RTIMAGES dataset:

<still as 'mcidas' on kangaroo>

cd $MCDATA
imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR
Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR
imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria
imglist.k: done


This says one of two things:

- there is no data in the RTIMAGES/GE-IR dataset

- or, the definition of the RTIMAGES/GE-IR dataset is incorrect

To investigate, I logged on omega as 'mcidas' and started poking around.

The configuration of the various datasets (descriptors) in the RTIMAGES
group is shown as:

<as 'mcidas' on omega>

cd $MCDATA
dsserve.k LIST RTIMAGES
Group/Descriptor         Type  Format & Range     RT Comment
------------------------ ----- ------------------ -- --------------------
RTIMAGES/ANTARCTIC       IMAGE AREA                  Antarctic IR Composite
                               
DIRFILE=/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/ANTARCTIC/4km/IR
                                    /IR_*
RTIMAGES/EDFLOATER-I     IMAGE AREA 160-169          Educational Floater
RTIMAGES/EDFLOATER-II    IMAGE AREA 60-69            Educational Floater II
RTIMAGES/GE-39           IMAGE AREA                  GOES-East Hemispheric Short
                                                      IR
                               
DIRFILE=/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/GOES-1[23]/4km/3
                                    .9/3.9_*
RTIMAGES/GE-CO2          IMAGE AREA                  GOES-East Hemispheric CO2
                               
DIRFILE=/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/GOES-1[23]/4km/1
 ...
dsserve.k: done


These dataset definitions direct McIDAS/ADDE to look in the 
/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat
subdirectories for RTIMAGES imagery.  This directory, however, does not exist:

ls /data
ls: cannot access /data: No such file or directory

Given the ADDE configuration, it strikes me that you may have meant to create 
the following
link on omega, so I created it for you:

<as 'root' on omega>
mkdir /data
ln -s /software/ldm/data /data/ldm

After making this link, I am able to list images in the RTIMAGES/GE-IR dataset:

<as 'mcidas' on omega>

cd $MCDATA
dataloc.k LIST RTIMAGES

Group Name                    Server IP Address
--------------------         ----------------------------------------
RTIMAGES                     OMEGA.LSC.VSC.EDU

<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done

imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR
Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR
 Pos Satellite/         Date       Time      Center   Band(s)
     sensor                                 Lat  Lon
 --- -------------  ------------  --------  ---- ---- ------------
  97  G-13 IMG      28 JUN 12180  16:15:00     0   72 4
imglist.k: done

So far, so good!

The next thing I checked for was access to POINT data:

<as 'mcidas' on omega>

cd $MCDATA
dataloc.k LIST RTPTSRC

Group Name                    Server IP Address
--------------------         ----------------------------------------
RTPTSRC                      OMEGA.LSC.VSC.EDU

<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done

ptlist.k RTPTSRC/PTSRCS FORM=FILE ALL
Pos      Description                        Schema  NRows NCols Proj# Created 
DataDate
------   --------------------------------   ------  ----- ----- ----- ------- 
--------
     8   SAO/METAR data for   26 JUN 2012   ISFC       72  7000     0 2012177 
2012178
     9   SAO/METAR data for   27 JUN 2012   ISFC       72  7000     0 2012178 
2012179
    10   SAO/METAR data for   28 JUN 2012   ISFC       72  7000     0 2012179 
2012180
    11   Mand. Level RAOB for 29 JUN 2012   IRAB        8  1500     0 2012180 
2012181
    18   Mand. Level RAOB for 26 JUN 2012   IRAB        8  1500     0 2012177 
2012178
    19   Mand. Level RAOB for 27 JUN 2012   IRAB        8  1500     0 2012178 
2012179
    20   Mand. Level RAOB for 28 JUN 2012   IRAB        8  1500     0 2012179 
2012180
    21   Sig.  Level RAOB for 29 JUN 2012   IRSG       16  6000     0 2012180 
2012181
    28   Sig.  Level RAOB for 26 JUN 2012   IRSG       16  6000     0 2012177 
2012178
    29   Sig.  Level RAOB for 27 JUN 2012   IRSG       16  6000     0 2012178 
2012179
    30   Sig.  Level RAOB for 28 JUN 2012   IRSG       16  6000     0 2012179 
2012180
    38   SHIP/BUOY data for   26 JUN 2012   ISHP       24  2000     0 2012178 
2012178
 ...
ptlist.k: Done

This looks good also!

The next thing I checked was TEXT data:

<as 'mcidas' on omega>

cd $MCDATA
dataloc.k LIST RTWXTEXT

Group Name                    Server IP Address
--------------------         ----------------------------------------
RTWXTEXT                     OMEGA.LSC.VSC.EDU

<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done

dsinfo.k TEXT RTWXTEXT

        Dataset Names of Type: TEXT  in Group: RTWXTEXT

Name         NumPos   Content
------------ ------   --------------------------------------
ETAMOS           1    Real-Time ETA Model Output Statistics
FOUS14           1    Real-Time FOUS14 Text
GFSMOS           1    Real-Time GFS Model Output Statistics
NAMMOS           1    Real-Time NAM Model Output Statistics
NGMMOS           1    Real-Time NGMMOS Text
SFCHOURLY        1    Real-Time SFC Hourly Text
SYNOPTIC         1    Real-Time SYNOPTIC Text
TERMFCST         1    Real-Time Terminal Forecast
UPPERAIR         1    Real-Time Upper Air Text

DSINFO -- done

sfcrpt.k KDEN 2
KDEN 281653Z 02007KT 330V040 10SM FEW070 SCT120 SCT200
     32/M03 A3019=
KDEN 281653Z 02007KT 330V040 10SM FEW070 SCT120 SCT200
     32/M03 A3019=
KDEN 281653Z 02007KT 330V040 10SM FEW070 SCT120 SCT200
     32/M03 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP132 FU DSNT S-W-N T03221028=
KDEN 281553Z COR 27003KT 10SM FEW070 SCT120 SCT200 29/03
     A3020=
KDEN 281553Z COR 27003KT 10SM FEW070 SCT120 SCT200 29/03
     A3020 RMK AO2 SLP140 FU DSNT S-W-N T02940028=
KDEN 281553Z 27003KT 10SM FEW070 SCT200 29/03 A3020=
KDEN 281553Z 27003KT 10SM FEW070 SCT200 29/03 A3020=
sfcrpt.k: Done

This looks good too!

The last ADDE thing that I checked was GRID data:

dataloc.k LIST RTGRIDS

Group Name                    Server IP Address
--------------------         ----------------------------------------
RTGRIDS                      OMEGA.LSC.VSC.EDU

<LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.
DATALOC -- done

dsinfo.k GRID RTGRIDS

        Dataset Names of Type: GRID  in Group: RTGRIDS

Name         NumPos   Content
------------ ------   --------------------------------------
ALL           1530    Real-Time Grids
AVN            200    Real-Time AVN Grids
ECMWF           10    Real-Time ECMWF Grids
ETA            120    Real-Time ETA Grids
GFS            200    Real-Time GFS/AVN Grids
MDR             10    Real-Time MDR/AVN Grids
MISC            10    Other Real-Time Grids
MRF            200    Real-Time MRF Grids
MRF-UW           2    MRF Grids in UW stream
NAM            120    Real-Time NAM Grids
NCEP            10    Real-Time NCEP Precip Grids
NGM             40    Real-Time NGM Grids
NGM-UW           2    NGM Grids in UW stream
RUC             80    Real-Time RUC Grids
UKMT           110    Real-Time UK Met Grids

DSINFO -- done

grdlist.k RTGRIDS/ALL

Dataset position 209    Directory Title= ALL  00Z MAPS
PAR  LEVEL      DAY          TIME     SRC  FHR  FDAY         FTIME    GRID  PRO
---- ---------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ -------- ----- ----
U      450 MB   27 JUN 12179 00:00:00 MAPS    0 27 JUN 12179 00:00:00     1 LAMB
Number of grids listed = 1
GRDLIST - done

So the ADDE server is setup correctly for GRID data as well.  But, this data is
not current, so there is likely something amiss with LDM processing.

Given the last step, I took a peek at the LDM setup on omega... I do _not_ see
an action setup to decode things in to McIDAS formats.  I assume that this
is because the decoding is being done on another machine?

Wrap-up:

- it looks like all that was missing was a symbolic link to the
  ~ldm/data directory (see above).

  Please let me know if I have misinterpreted anything, and don't
  hesitate to ask questions!

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JCY-277961
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed