Viewing the SDI Console Messages

The Ingestor Console, referred to hereafter as console, displays the ingestor's status. See the ingestor chapters' Interpreting the Console Messages sections (e.g., GVAR section) for the console messages you may see with each ingestor.

The console messages can be routed to one (and only one) of these three destinations:

local monitor
remote monitor
file

Local Monitor

The SDI is not shipped with a monitor, but if you have one you can connect it using the instructions in the Component Interconnections section of Chapter 2 - Initial Checkout, Setup and Power Up. The console messages are routed to this local monitor unless you choose one of the other options below (remote monitor or file).

Remote Monitor

Log into the SDI using the procedure described in the Remote Access section of Accessing the SDI. Then complete the following procedure to send console output to your remote monitor.

1. Export the display to your workstation.

Type: export DISPLAY=workstation:0

where: workstation is the name of your workstation

2. Type: xterm -C &

File

Log into the SDI using the procedure described in the Remote Access section of Accessing the SDI. Then complete the following procedure to send console output to a file.

1. Edit the file /data/opt/etc/rc.GVAR (or rc.POES for POES ingestor, rc.MTSAT-HRIT for MTSAT HRIT ingestor, etc.)

2. Change the setting of INGE_OUTPUT= to the location and file name to which you want to route the console messages. For example, if you want to send the console messages to file /data/console.log, change the line to: INGE_OUTPUT=/data/console.log

CAUTION! If console output is sent to a file, the file will continue to grow indefinitely. Therefore, you should monitor the file, and perhaps truncate or rotate it periodically to prevent it from growing too large.

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