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FSI Troubleshooting Tips
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| OB9 Version 0.2 |
No radar data is being displayed, and FSI is in a one-panel mode. There are several known reasons for this condition:
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The FSIprocessor and/or rssd has stopped running With the assistance of your ITO, check the process list (‘ps –lef’ from the command line) on the px1f machine to see if the FSIprocessor or rssd processes are running. If either or both are not running, issue these commands as user fxa@px1f stopFSIprocessor The products in RPS list do not match those in FSIproducts.txt The px1f:/awips/fxa/data/FSIproducts.txt file determines which products the FSI will process. These product numbers must also be defined in your RPS list for each radar. If they do not, you must edit either file so that the product numbers that FSI is requesting have a corresponding entry in the RPS list. Ask for ITO assistance when editing the FSIproducts.txt file. The 0.5° Reflectivity product is not in the RPS list The FSI requires this one product, at a minimum, to launch. Edit your RPS list to include the 0.5° Reflectivity product. Be sure you include the product number corresponding to that listed in the FSIproducts.txt file (see above). |
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| OB9 Version 0.2 |
Incomplete volume scans, and FSI is in a four-panel mode. |
Check to see if you have all the elevation angles in your VCPs defined in your RPS list. For Reflectivity and Velocity, 8-bit (level 256) data are preferred. For Spectrum Width, only 4-bit (level16) data are viewable. NOTE: If the elevations scans below 1.8° are missing, most likely, super-resolution products are defined in an RPS list for a radar that does not produce super-resolution products (e.g., pre-ORPG10). You need to remove the super-resolution products from that radar’s RPS list in order for FSI to process the normal-resolution products at the lowest elevation angles. NOTE: If TDWR high elevation scans are intentionally omitted from your RPS list for VCP 80, the corresponding elevation scan numbers must be removed from the line associated with the TDWR and VCP of interest in this file: /data/fxa/nationalData/tdwrFsiScanOrder.txt. |
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| OB9 Version 0.2 |
No maps to choose from in Maps menu. |
This is a symptom with the users’ personal configuration file default reset problem described at the end of the last section. To fix this, exit FSI, from the command line, type fsi_def from the command line, and then restart FSI. |
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| OB9 Version 0.2 |
No storm motion. | AWIPS users choose the storm motion vector (SRM) from the AWIPS Radar Display Controls. If the user chooses “Average Storm Motion from STI”, the STI product must be included in the RPS list. Otherwise, if the user chooses to use a “Custom Storm Motion”, the storm motion must be set to something other than zero |
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| OB9 Version 0.2 |
/awips/fxa/data/localizationDataSets/OAX/userMotion.txt is of zero size. |
When a workstation is re-localized (required for FSI install), it "zeroes" out the userMotion.txt file. In order to get values in there again, you need to make any change in your Radar Display Control settings for storm motion. That message will then go away, and FSI will use the motion setting you just entered. |
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