McIDAS-XCD Administrator's Guide
Version 2021.1
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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. To run them, you must be logged on as oper. If the error message "Permission Denied" is displayed, your logon does not correspond to the logon in the installation procedure. 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.
builds the rapid access pointer and text files |
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lists the output from an error file |
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data circuit utility |
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plots data availability from MD files |
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plots MD file data on a multiple-panel display |
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decoder utility |
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deletes weather text and index files |
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lists the navigation parameters necessary for entering new GRIB2 datasets |
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ID group utility |
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station ID monitoring utility |
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lists the number of real-time grids received |
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deletes real-time grid or MD files |
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significant level upper air storage utility |
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starts the ingestor and decoder programs |
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lists the decoder and ingestor status |
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creates geographic subsectors of Mercator grids |
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updates the station reporting list |
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maintains a data routing table of WMO headers |
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Unix command for managing the MySQL/MariaDB database used by the GRIB server |
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Unix command for displaying the status window |
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Unix command for managing the XCD status and the log file |
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Unix command for deleting real-time GRIB or BUFR files, and their associated database entries. |
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