AWIPS TOWR-S RPM Installation Instructions - Overview

Note as of Feb 8, 2023, the latest TOWR-S RPM v23 is available. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE PROVIDED BELOW OR IN THE PORTLETS found at the right-hand side of this page. Site Prep and Installation Instructions for TOWR-S RPM v23 can be found HERE. (*see below)

(*)  An update to the pdf instructions (if not using the google doc link above), posted 2/9/2023. On Step F pp 9-10 (inspecting on cpv1 pqact dot conf file), the text should be updated to read:

The first entry above w/ANY is for GLM for GOES-East and West. The second entry is for GOES imagery.  If you have used one of the regional templates, then you will see patterns in the grep command starting with TIRT00 and/or TIRS00 active (not commented out), and the entry TIR[ST]00 (for all GLM tiles) will be commented out like it is in the template.   For the Alaska and Pacific Region, what’s depicted above will vary, showing TIR[TAH] instead of TIR[EPSTW]. Make sure there are no duplicate entries.

Update posted on 2/16/2023: In section N2, LocalOptionsMenuItems xml should read LocalOptionMenuItems xml (no letter "s").

Update posted on 3/8/2023: In the pqact conf exclude section, there are two templates linked in the Vlab instruction. At the top of the file there was an empty line. This empty line can cause the exclude pattern to not match in many cases, esp if the pqact conf exclude file was originally an empty file and this template is concatenated to it. A corrected template with no blank line at the top is linked here. Please use this template for the pqact conf exclude. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Welcome to the AWIPS Satellite Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) Installation Instructions page. Directions to update to the latest Satellite RPM to your site's AWIPS can be found here.  The RPM installs at the site localization level without touching baseline code or configurations.  It contains the most up-to-date configuration files, including new color tables, RGB enhancements, AWIPS menu structure, and style rules for satellite products in advance of baseline AWIPS releases.  As these configurations mature, they transition to the AWIPS baseline.

Version 22 became available on February 8, 2022 to replace any previous towr-s rpm which may be installed. See the February 3 Satellite Book Club Presentation on v22 for full details. 

Version 22 supports some upstream metadata changes planned for the Blended Hydro (TPW/Rain Rate) product.  It also handles a forthcoming change to the GOES moisture and temperature files (reduced-level version to be released on the SBN in mid-March 2022). It maintains ingest and display rules for the Mesoscale Sector (1-min) Fire/Hotspot Detection products for GOES-16 and GOES-17 as well as for the full disk Geostationary Lighting Mapper gridded products (here are GLM Minimum Flash Area, GLM Data Quality, and GLM Full Disk Quick Guide links).  The S-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Active Fires and CIMSS GOES Turbulence Probability products and data flow are also retained.  For the former, a new I-band-based version will populate the existing menu. An RGB plus derived product read-out feature is added under Local Options, as well as a set of "Rocket Plume" exhaust RGBs.

TOWR-S RPM v22 is compatible with current AWIPS releases at or after 20.2.3. Similar to recent RPM updates, version 22 will be staged to your site on dx1 (or dv1 for HCI): /data/fxa/INSTALL/towr-rpm/awips2-towrs-satVer22-20.2.3-22.noarch.rpm.  A note about HCI: TOWR-S RPM version 22 is also compatible with the HCI / 20.3.2 builds.


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