[wxqc] Intermittent Weather Data

[Gerry Creager]

The combination of the new third server config getting stable, and first 
growing a new hard drive might have had a positive effect.  We took 
first down hard as soon as I notified the list, rather than waiting for 
confirmation that it was out of rotate.  The decision was based on 
trying to make sure we salvaged as much (turned out it was virtually 
all) of the data on the drive.

After the rebuild, and some diagnostics, we brought the system back up, 
and into rotate.  It's now got a modest load of 75 connections.

I'm not sure if you had a network problem or not, I'm not sure I could 
readily find your home system as comcast doesn't support real, external 
network diagnosis.

gerry

JohnHCate wrote:
> I feel that I should respond as it was my question initially that 
> started the discussion of the day.
> 
>  
> 
> I was experiencing data intermittency throughout the day – I was not 
> getting the ‘third’ server at all.  My data was being picked up when I 
> hit ‘core’ and ‘first’
> 
>  
> 
> This afternoon, after work, taking some of the thoughts gleaned from 
> early responses I started going through my system
> 
>  
> 
> First, rebooting the Weather Computer – no status improvement.
> 
> Reconfiguring weather computer – no improvement
> 
> Only running WeatherLink 5.7.1 rather than VirtualVP, WeatherLink and 
> VWS – same – no improvement.
> 
>  
> 
> I then tried pinging rotate.arps.net – idea gleaned from an early mresponse.
> 
> Neither my weather computer nor the main computer would get responses – 
> both timed out.  Sounds like my internet as was suggested.
> 
>  I then went and shut everything down, including my modem and routers, 
> waited a few minutes and restarted things.
> 
>  
> 
> Started WeatherLink only – reset the transmit to 5 minutes (so it did 
> not take so long to see results).  Things started working.  
> Transmissions were regularly sent as before but this time were received 
> through the system.
> 
>  
> 
> About an hour ago, I restarted virtualVP and WeatherLink – again, system 
> is working normally with no drops and no lost adta.
> 
>  
> 
> I am not sure what I did to clear the problem but whatever, I apologise 
> to the net for starting something that became controversial.
> 
>  
> 
> John  WB7TJI  AS519
> 
>  
> 
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