20021024: allegan offline for patching

>From:  "Rob Gillies ." <address@hidden>
>Organization:  USU
>Keywords:  200210222244.g9MMiEp01962 McIDAS ADDE LDM

Rob,

>thought you might be interested in this message from Paul our sysadmin. I'll
>be working with him later today. I did test Mcidas - it no longer hangs buy
>does not bring up any data - just looping a dark screen. 

I just pointed at allegan for the dataset RTIMAGES and was successful in
listing and displaying the latest image.  I also pointed at allegan
for the POINT dataset RTPTSRC and then did a listing of available data:

PTLIST RTPTSRC/PTSRCS FORM=FILE ALL
Pos      Description                        Schema  NRows NCols Proj# Created 
DataDate
------   --------------------------------   ------  ----- ----- ----- ------- 
--------
    17   Mand. Level RAOB for 24 OCT 2002   IRAB        8  1300     0 2002297 
2002297
    27   Sig.  Level RAOB for 24 OCT 2002   IRSG       16  6000     0 2002297 
2002297
    71   NLDN data for        18 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002291 
2002291
    72   NLDN data for        19 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002292 
2002292
    73   NLDN data for        20 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002293 
2002293
    74   NLDN data for        21 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002294 
2002294
    75   NLDN data for        22 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002295 
2002295
    76   ????????????????????????????????   ????    ***** ***** ***** ******* 
*******
    77   NLDN data for        24 Oct 2002   NLDN     1000  1000     0 2002297 
2002297
    81   Hourly Prof data for 18 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002291 
2002291
    82   Hourly Prof data for 19 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002292 
2002292
    83   Hourly Prof data for 20 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002293 
2002293
    84   Hourly Prof data for 21 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002294 
2002294
    85   Hourly Prof data for 22 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002295 
2002295
    86   Hourly Prof data for 23 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002296 
2002296
    87   Hourly Prof data for 24 Oct 2002   WPRO       48    35     0 2002297 
2002297
    91   6-min Prof data for  18 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002291 
2002291
    92   6-min Prof data for  19 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002292 
2002292
    93   6-min Prof data for  20 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002293 
2002293
    94   6-min Prof data for  21 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002294 
2002294
    95   6-min Prof data for  22 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002295 
2002295
    96   6-min Prof data for  23 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002296 
2002296
    97   6-min Prof data for  24 Oct 2002   WPR6      480    35     0 2002297 
2002297
PTLIST: Done

The listing shows that at least one file is damaged (MDXX0076).  It also
shows that the upper air, synpotic, ship/buoy, and other POINT files are
not being decoded.  I am worried that the reason for this is related to
the comment from Paul F.:

"I deleted those that looked like data files"

If the wrong files were deleted by Paul, XCD decoding will be mucked
up.  This needs to be checked into since needed files in the directory
into which XCD is trying to create its output might cause the decoders
to do unusual things (like create big files, or simply not work and
use up CPU).

Since the xcd output directory was taking up all of the room, I am
worried that your data scouring is not working.

>I'll check things as per your e-mail of yesterday and let you know Tom.

If you could give me the logins for mcidas and ldm on allegan, I could
quickly assess if Paul deleted some files that are needed for XCD
to work.  If he did, then someone needs to:

o shutdown the LDM
o resetup XCD decoding
o restart the LDM

This would be like setting up XCD decoding all over again.  It is not
hard and doesn't take much time if you are familar with the process, but
it could be a time sync for someone who is not familiar with what
needs to be done.

>Thanks .. Rob

Please let me know if you want me to snoop around on allegan.

Tom

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>From: Paul Farrall <address@hidden>
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>To: "Rob Gillies ." <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: allegan offline for patching
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>Rob,
>
>The problems that Tom experienced were likely due to me taking ldm up and
>down on Allegan today.  I was doing some maintenance work on it. I patched
>Allegan with the latest solaris patches and it's now back up.
>
>I also noticed that the /var/data partition was full.  Most of the files
>were in /var/data/xcd.  I deleted those that looked like data files and we
>are down to 6% utilization.  I don't know if we missed this the other day?
>
>Anyway, it appears that Mcidas is working now.  Go ahead and test it and
>let me know how it goes.
>
>Paul

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