1. GISC Exeter Status Report - 2018
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GISC Exeter Status Report
TT-GISC Casablanca, 18th to 20th September 2018
Mark Francis
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2. Contents GISC/RTH Exeter Status Report
Area of Responsibility – DCPCs and NCs
AMDCN connectivity
Training – Capacity building activity
Operational issues in last period
GISC Back up and activities
Traffic size and volumes, uptime, user registration
Changes in GISC, including new features since last meeting
Outlook (planned changes/improvements)
Any other items of interest
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3. Area of responsibility - DCPCs
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting
Global Climate Observing System - Lead Centre for Antarctica (BAS Cambridge)
Global Production Centre/Long-Range Forecasting
Marine Observations Centre
MEDARE, Spain (backup)
Opera Data Centre
Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre - Geographical
Specialised Ocean/Wave Centre
Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (London)
World Area Forecast Centre (London)
Just a list of the DCPCs who have registered GISC Exeter as either their primary or backup GISC.
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4. Area of responsibility - NCs
National Met Centres:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, United Republic of Tanzania
Denmark (backup), Luxembourg (backup), Spain (backup)
WSO:
Ascension Island, Bermuda, Gibraltar
Pitcairn Island, St Helena Island
Again, just a list of NCs with GISC Exeter as their primary or backup GISC.
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5. AMDCN connectivity Connections to GISCs: Connections to NCs/NMCs:
Over RMDCN:
Melbourne, Moscow, New Delhi, Offenbach, Pretoria, Seoul,
Tokyo, Toulouse
Over the internet:
Brasilia, Offenbach (backup), Toulouse (backup), Washington
Connections to NCs/NMCs:
Brussels, Copenhagen, De Bilt, Dublin, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal,
Oslo, Reykjavik, Rome
Dar es Salaam, Montreal (backup), Rome (backup)
Repeat of the table. Currently migrating all TCP socket connections over to FTP, on the advice our IT security department. Working with Copenhagen, De Bilt and Oslo at present.
Increased use of the internet to provide hot or cold backup to RMDCN connections.
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6. Training – Capacity building activity
In June 2017, Met Office and Météo-France held a “Metadata and User” training course at Météo-France headquarters in Toulouse. This was aimed at the representatives of the NMCs in our joint areas of responsibility.
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7. Operational issues in last period
One significant operational issue to report for GISC Exeter in the past 12 months.
Failure of the operational GISC environment required a complete rebuild of the servers.
GISC Exeter had 85% availability between September 2017 and August 2018, with a major outage lasting several weeks in May and June.
99.99% availability for WMO message switch – 31 minutes outage between September 2017 and August 2018.
99.99% availability for WMO file switch – 49 minutes outage between November September 2017 and August 2018.
Not a lot to say here – just a statement of fact.
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8. GISC Back up and activities
Functional backup arrangement with GISC Toulouse.
NCs and DCPCs in the Met Office and Météo-France areas of responsibility are implementing backup connections to their backup GISC to ensure continuity of global data exchange.
De Bilt, Dublin and Reykjavik all working on backup connections to Toulouse. We already have connections to a number of Toulouse’s NCs.
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9. Traffic size and volumes, uptime, user registration
Daily traffic statistics:
Ingesting 11GBytes of Essential data into 24hr Cache.
Metadata catalog contains 101,356 records.
Daily catalog synchronisation with GISCs & DCPCs:
Beijing, Brasilia, ECMWF, Jeddah, Melbourne, Moscow
Offenbach, Seoul, Tehran, Tokyo, Toulouse and Washington.
85% availability between September 2017 and August 2018.
SLA for the GISC service at Exeter is 99.8% availability.
13 registered users
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10. Changes in GISC, including new features since last meeting
OpenWIS development:
Software development is being carried out as a collaboration involving all members of the association.
Latest release brings additional capability and bug fixes.
Development includes changes to GeoNetworks that will be committed back to the trunk version.
Software built nightly and a suite of automated tests run against the build.
Following development activity by the OpenWIS Association, version was installed on the Exeter GISC. This version brought significant security fixes and enables the redeployment of the application using Puppet.
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11. Outlook (planned changes/improvements)
Met Office working on enhancing the data delivery capability of its GISC solution.
OpenWIS Association approved the roadmap for OpenWIS Core and have agreed:
To focus our efforts towards WIS 2.0.
To conduct three or four pilot projects over the next 12 months.
The pilot projects will focus on demonstrating the benefit for the users of WIS 2.0.
The current version of OpenWIS will be maintained but future development focussed on WIS 2.0.
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12. Any other items of interest
Taking part in the pilot project to synchronize GISC cache through the cloud. Acting as proxy for Pretoria & Washington.
Metadata and User training took place in June 2017, at Météo-France headquarters in Toulouse.
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13. Any questions?
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