5f. GSICS Wiki Overview and NOAA GSICS THREDDS Service Overview 08 June 2018 5f. GSICS Wiki Overview and NOAA GSICS THREDDS Service Overview Yuanzheng (Jordan) Yao 2017 GSICS Annual Meeting Mar 22, 2017
Outline System (hardware/software) Overview Alia Name Security and Backup Working Status NOAA GSICS THREDDS Service Overview
New GSICS WIKI SERVER Started On April 2016 As scheduled All Contents are migrated from the old serve All parts of work are working as expected The old server (gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov) is offline now My Actions from 2016 GSICS Annual Meeting GDWG.2016.5c.1: To inform the groups about the new security of the new server, and the backups (completed on 2016-05-31) GDWG.2016.5c.2: To inform workgroup members a week in advance and to switch to the new server (UMD), and decommission the NOAA server (completed on 2016-04-30) GDWG.2016.5c.3: To check how long the URL of new Wiki would be shown on the current Wiki at NOAA (completed on 2016-04-30).
Technical Details Hardware Software Apache HTTPD Linux, 64 cores, 256GB memory, OS: redhat 7 Software Apache HTTPD Foswiki version v2.1.2, Release Foswiki-2.1.2, Plugin API version 2.4 Support Perl Modules Other Apps Separate Storage used for backup
Domain Name: gsicswiki.net Reserved from Godaddy We reserved gsics.info as well Two-years term
Security and Backup Besides standard Linux system security setup and wiki username/password protection, no extra security setup Contents and setup files are fully backed up every month. Every day and every Sunday, full backup are made as well, but overwritten the previous one.
Problems Found and Solved System power down 3-4 times a year. System was upgraded a couple times a year. Each upgrade caused Perl libraries erased, which requires a reinstall. Some pages have links pointing to old NOAA server. They need to be fixed one by one (Please report any additional problems whenever they were found) New functions required new plugin apps. Home page is /gsicswiki.net/wiki, not /gsicswiki.net
Why the home page has to be http://gsicswiki Why the home page has to be http://gsicswiki.net/wiki but not http://gsicswiki.net ? When wiki is migrated from one system to another, the inside link addresses and file locations are not changed. Instead, the system is configures as “whenever see the old address, use the new address instead” (see the black path in fig). The home page is https://gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov/wiki on the old server. If we set gsicswiki.net as home, the system actually will assume that http://gsicswiki.net is at the location :gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov/wiki. Then requests to http://gsicswiki.net/filepath will be searched at gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov/www/filepath http://gsicswiki.net/filepath replace gsicswiki.net with gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov gsics.nesids.noaa.gov/filepath gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov/filepath Gsics.nesdis.noaa.gov/www/filepath
NOAA THREDDS Service Switched to the new THREDDS server : http://star.nesdis.noaa.gov/thredds/GSICS Latest Catalog files update was done on August 2016. Main products: GEO-LEO IR: GOES-13, GOES15 vs Metop-A (NRTC and RAC)
NOAA THREDDS Service (cont.) Remote Access is enabled:
Summary The new GSICS wiki service is set outside of NOAA It is ready for use Frequent back up is set up The old wiki server is offline NOAA THREDDS Service is moved to a new server
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