[Dxspider-support] Grid info passing through nodes?

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

Ian Maude wrote:
> Wayne wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We recently installed DXSpider on a linux box. We had been running on 
>> WinXP but now are using Gentoo.
>>
>> All seems to be running great except for getting the grid information. 
>> I can log into my partner nodes and see the EMXX and ENXX in the CC11 
>> data but this does not make it to our node.
>>
>> When using watchdbg on the partner node call from our cluster the 
>> dxgrid information is no longer there so anyone on our node can not 
>> get the information.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction to fix this? I've tried 
>> set/dxqrid on various calls but nothing changes.
> Hi Wayne,
> When you tranferred to the Linux box did you not transfer over your 
> existing spider tree?  I would hae thought the info should stll be there 
> if so.  Just the users file would do it I think.  I am making the 
> assumption you have the set/grid command switched on :)
> 
> One thing you can do (if you can handle the bandwidth) is to send a 
> remote command to a neighbouring node.  something like rcmd <nodecall> 
> forward/opernam all might do it but I cannot be 100% without Dirks input.
> 

Fortunately (having just had a quick look) 'forward/opername all' would 
not work. Which is just as well, because I would have got a load of 
complaints.

The DXGRID information is built up over time through incoming PC41 
broadcasts from other nodes. If you have your original spider tree, then 
taking a recent 'user_asc' file and executing it will rebuild your users 
file WITH all the historical data in there.

Otherwise, you will have to wait several months for it to build back up 
again. You should get an automatic broadcast every three months from 
every active user on the system that is connected to a DXSpider node.

I may do something about this, in time, it seems to be required more 
frequently.

Dirk