Installation and test on dev-vm101 notes [kvqc2_1.0.1 and other revisions ... ]

The following notes describe the installation and use of kvqc2 version 1.0.1 Sources: https://svn.met.no/viewvc/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/

Algorithms in this release:

• Log into dev-vm101 as user kvalobs
• If an old kvqc2 exists stop the running kvqc2 process by 'kvstop -l' (lower case L), then type the number corresponding to kvqc2
• Remove active configuration files (this is to just ensure that when the new kvqc2 version is set running it does not find and use an old configuration file)

For example:

$ cd /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config
$ mv XXX.cfg XXX.hold 
$ mv ProcessUnit.cfg ProcessUnit.hold

( PS NOTE: actually now all the earliy config files have been moved to /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config/old )

• Install the latest version of kvqc2
• Log in as a user with sudoer permission
• NB one may need to run “apt-get update” first in order to update the package list.

$ sudo apt-get install kvqc2

An alternative is to install the new kvqc2 directly from where the debian package was built on dev-vm101:

i.e. using “sudo dpkg -i kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.deb” as illustrated below.

paule@dev-vm101:~/kvqc2-1.0.1$ ls
kvqc2-1.0.1            kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.changes  kvqc2_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
kvqc2_1.0.1-1.diff.gz  kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.deb      kvqc2-1.0.1.tar.gz
kvqc2_1.0.1-1.dsc      kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.upload
paule@dev-vm101:~/kvqc2-1.0.1$ sudo dpkg -i kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 52403 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kvqc2 1.0.0-1 (using kvqc2_1.0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kvqc2 ...
Setting up kvqc2 (1.0.1-1) ...
paule@dev-vm101:~/kvqc2-1.0.1$ 

Bug Fix and Confirmation of apt-get install

Initial tests illustrated that some data was written back to thedatabase at too high a precision. This is fixed in revision 1782: https://svn.met.no/viewvc/kvoss?view=rev&revision=1782 and led to a kvqc2-1.0.2 revision. This also provided the opportunity to check that the install from apt-get install works, i.e.:

paule@dev-vm101:~$ sudo apt-get install kvqc2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kvqc2
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
Need to get 288kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://repo.met.no etch/main kvqc2 1.0.2-1 [288kB]
Fetched 288kB in 0s (12.7MB/s)
(Reading database ... 52403 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kvqc2 1.0.1-1 (using .../kvqc2_1.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kvqc2 ...
Setting up kvqc2 (1.0.2-1) ...
paule@dev-vm101:~$ 

• “kvstart” should start the new version, just test to see if this works:
• Login as user kvalobs and then:

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ kvstart
KVBIN=/usr/bin
KVPID=/var/run/kvalobs
TIMEOUT=60
 
 
  Starter kvalobs dette kan ta noe tid!
  Hvis det ikke skjer noe på MER enn 60 sekund
  bruk CTRL-C for å avbryte!
 
 
Starter kvQabased ....running
Starter kvManagerd ....running
Starter kvDataInputd ....running
Starter kvServiced ....running
Starter kvAgregated ....running
Starter kvsynopd ....running
Starter norcom2kv ....running
Starter kvqc2 ....Ok!

• Stop kvqc2 {use whatever is the operational procedure to stop an individual daemon}

• Run from the command line and check output

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ kvqc2  # NB the s/w is installed under /usr/bin

Note the following features:

• – kvqc2-1.0.1: starting …. the new version is installed
• Logging to file </var/log/kvalobs/Qc2.log>!
• Scanning For Files {repeated} … i.e. no configuration files are active

All of the above can be seen below!

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ which kvqc2
/usr/bin/kvqc2
kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ kvqc2
INFO: 
-- Reading configuration from file </etc/kvalobs/kvalobs.conf>!
INFO: 
-- Configuration file loaded!
INFO: 
-- Using 'database.dbconnect' from configuration file
FROM CONFIGURATION FILE: pgdriver.so
Logging to file </var/log/kvalobs/Qc2.log>!
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- kvqc2-1.0.1: starting ....
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- Using <kvtest-dev-vm101/> as path in CORBA nameserver
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- Using CORBA nameserver at: corbans.met.no
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- Loading driver for database engine </usr/lib/kvalobs/db/pgdriver.so>!
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- Driver <PostgreSQL> loaded!
INFO: (Qc2 ...)
-- Writing pid to file </var/run/kvalobs/kvqc2-dev-vm101.pid>!
INFO: 
-- Qc2Work: starting work thread!
INFO: 
-- New database connection (PostgreSQL) created!
DEBUG: 
-- Created a new connection to the database!
INFO: 
-- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Scanning For Files
Scanning For Files
Scanning For Files

• Create an empty configuration file:

 
# As user kvalobs
kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ touch /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config/BlankFile.cfg

• Wait for up to 1 minutes and then note the output from kvqc2:

Scanning For Files
Scanning For Files
Configuration File Found: /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config/BlankFile.cfg
2010-06-22 20:10:17: 2010-06-22 20:00:00 -> 2010-06-22 20:00:00  /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config/BlankFile.cfg

• clean up by remoiving the blank file

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ rm  /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config/BlankFile.cfg

• Stop (Ctrl C) the running process on the command line (NB may have to wait 1 minute) and then restart as the daemon process with “kvstart”.

• The configuration files are available from the subversion repository in the src/Reference directory of the distribution https://svn.met.no/viewvc/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/src/Reference/.
• To load the files, e.g. copy the links and use wget:

# As user kvalobs
$ cd /etc/kvalobs/Qc2Config
$ wget https://svn.met.no/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/src/Reference/DailyProcessUnitMissing.cfg --no-check-certificate
$ wget https://svn.met.no/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/src/Reference/MissingLinear.hold --no-check-certificate
$ wget https://svn.met.no/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/src/Reference/SingleMaxMinAverage.hold --no-check-certificate
$ wget https://svn.met.no/kvoss/kvQc2/branches/kvqc2-1.0.1/src/Reference/TEST3036.hold --no-check-certificate

In operations this is an example of the default configuration file. At a specified time each day it will set an algorithm to process the last N days of data.

Default setting is last 3 days.

• Monitor output with

$ tail -f /var/log/kvalobs/Qc2.log

• Edit the configuration file and set to run during the next minute, i.e. chnage the following entries:

...
RunAtHour=21
RunAtMinute=34
...

NB Times in UTC!!!

• Here are some observations:

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ tail -f /var/log/kvalobs/Qc2.log  

...
20100622221439: INFO 
--------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
20100622235953: INFO 
--------------- Case 10: Single Linear
20100622235953: INFO 
--------------- Single Linear

Then … nothing else happened. Note strict filters are being applied to the data. Now rerun but remove the A_fqclevel=0 setting. i.e. in DailyProcessUnitMissing.cfg:

#A_fqclevel=0

• Reset the run time and observe Qc2.log output.

--------------- Case 10: Single Linear
20100623000814: INFO 
--------------- Single Linear
20100623000815: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 1.9 99754 2010-6-22 20:0:0
20100623000815: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 13.1 17150 2010-6-22 20:0:0
20100623000816: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 2.2 99754 2010-6-22 18:0:0
20100623000817: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 15.2 17150 2010-6-22 17:0:0
20100623000818: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 3.5 99754 2010-6-22 13:0:0
20100623000819: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 15.5 17150 2010-6-22 12:0:0
20100623000819: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 15.2 17150 2010-6-22 10:0:0
20100623000820: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 5.5 76905 2010-6-22 7:0:0
20100623000825: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 22.6 77007 2010-6-21 13:0:0
20100623000825: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 8.4 76930 2010-6-21 13:0:0
20100623000827: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 7.8 76928 2010-6-21 7:0:0
20100623000831: INFO 
--------------- ProcessUnitT Writing Data 7.2 76928 2010-6-20 23:0:0

• Pick a random entry from above and check the output in the kvalobs databse:

kvalobs@dev-vm101:~$ psql kvalobs
Welcome to psql 8.3.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help with psql commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

kvalobs=# select * from data where obstime='2010-06-21 13:00:00' and stationid=76930 and paramid=211;
 stationid |       obstime       | original | paramid |       tbtime        | typeid | sensor | level | corrected |   controlinfo    |     useinfo      | cfailed  
-----------+---------------------+----------+---------+---------------------+--------+--------+-------+-----------+------------------+------------------+----------
     76930 | 2010-06-21 13:00:00 |   -32767 |     211 | 2010-06-21 13:30:06 |     22 | 0      |     0 |       8.4 | 0000001100000000 | 9894900000000000 |  QC2d-2 
(1 row)

kvalobs=# select * from data where obstime between '2010-06-21 12:00:00' and '2010-06-21 14:00:00' and stationid=76930 and paramid=211;
 stationid |       obstime       | original | paramid |       tbtime        | typeid | sensor | level | corrected |   controlinfo    |     useinfo      | cfailed  
-----------+---------------------+----------+---------+---------------------+--------+--------+-------+-----------+------------------+------------------+----------
     76930 | 2010-06-21 12:00:00 |      7.6 |     211 | 2010-06-21 12:36:27 |     11 | 0      |     0 |       7.6 | 0110000000100000 | 7000000000000000 | 
     76930 | 2010-06-21 13:00:00 |   -32767 |     211 | 2010-06-21 13:30:06 |     22 | 0      |     0 |       8.4 | 0000001100000000 | 9894900000000000 |  QC2d-2 
     76930 | 2010-06-21 14:00:00 |      9.1 |     211 | 2010-06-21 14:24:02 |     22 | 0      |     0 |       9.1 | 0110000000000000 | 7100000400000000 | 
(3 rows)
kvalobs=# 

Note: After seeing the above info I added CfailedString=“MIST” to the cfg file.

NB Lots of work to be done tuning the control flag settings etc!!!

NB Currently only work on data where “qclevel NOT EQUAL 0” Therefore it is vital that a qc1 algorithm has checked the data … otherwise there will be no Qc2 check suspect that this might be the case. How often? How better to tune?

• Rerun the algorithm over a longer time interval, i.e. set Last_NDays to a value > 3
• Observe output, repeat tests for different controlflag filter settings.

The algorithm checks «!CheckFlags.condition(is→controlinfo(),params.Aflag)» that none of the analysis flag settings are true, i.e. the settings in the config file prefixed with “A_”

• Set the algorithm to run at the end of the day (at the time of writing it is set to 22:09 UTC).
• During the working day the algorithm has not yet acted on any of the recent data. One can add a missing value for a specific case in the test database and then observe the results later. This is a laborious endeavour but allows very specific tests to be carried out.

On dev-vm101 the directory /home/kvalobs/TESTDATA contains test data for March 2036.

On each day for all stations the “original” hourly temperature has been set to a missing value -32767 for the times 05:00, 11:00, 17:00 and 23:00 UT and the original value is kept for reference, in curly bracket in CFAILED.

|12320|2036-03-01 11:00:00|-32767|211|2036-03-01 11:06:53|330|0|0|2.3|1111100000000010|7000000000000000| {2.3}

To use the testdata, clean up old entries in the kvalobs db with commands like:

sql> DELETE FROM data WHERE obstime between '2036-02-28' and '2036-04-01';

Reload test data:

sql>  \copy data FROM '/home/kvalobs/TESTDATA/data-203603-GeneralSingleMissing-P7.dat' WITH DELIMITER AS '|'

And capture results with

sql> select * from data WHERE obstime between '2036-02-28' and '2036-04-01' and cfailed like '%QC2d-2%'  \g | cat >> FullMissingLinear.dat;

EXAMPLE TEST

sql > \copy data FROM '/home/kvalobs/TESTDATA/data-203603-GeneralSingleMissing-P7.dat' WITH DELIMITER AS '|'

 select * from data WHERE obstime between '2036-02-28' and '2036-04-01' and paramid=211 and cfailed like '%QC2d-2%'  \g | cat >> FullMissingLinear.dat;

ANALYSIS

cat FullMissingLinear.dat | grep -v "rows)" | sed '/^$/d' | sed '/--/d' | sed '/stationid/d' | sed 's/^.\{103\}//' | sed 's/|.*{/ /' | sed 's/}.*//' | sed '/-32767/d' >  XY.dat

The above command just strips out the two columns of data to compare, e.g.just looking at the first lines

cat FullMissingLinear.dat | grep -v "rows)" | sed '/^$/d' | sed '/--/d' | sed '/stationid/d' | sed 's/^.\{103\}//' | sed 's/|.*{/ /' | sed 's/}.*//' | sed '/-32767/d' | head

gives:

     3.2  5.4
       8.1  8.7
         2  2.3
       6.9  6.7
       5.8  6.5
         1  0.9
       6.6  6.9
       6.8  6.63
       6.9  6.86
       6.5  6.68

Values to be rounded to 1 decimal place. Investigate and fix.

Then plot in R: (BE CAREFUL copying and pasting the long lines !!!)

$ R
FileName="XY.dat"
dim=100   # make dim smaller to zoom into the middle of the plot

UTD <- read.table(FileName, header=TRUE)

#jpeg(filename=paste(FileName,"jpg",sep="."))
pdf()
plot(UTD[,1],UTD[,2],ylim=c(-dim,dim),xlim=c(-dim,dim),xlab='Qc2 Algorithm/Celsius',ylab='Original/Celsius', main='200803 Hourly Temperature', sub='Missing Value Correction',col=4)
# pch=46 for dots
lines(c(-dim,dim),c(-dim,dim),col=3)
lines(c(-dim-10,dim+10),c(0,0))
lines(c(0,0),c(-dim-10,dim+10))
lines(c(-dim-10,dim+10),c(-dim-10,dim+10),col=3)

dev.off()

#To exit R:

quit()

# NB the script creates the plot "Rplots.pdf" picture below (converted to jpg for the wiki).

More examples of other parameters available at:

— 2010/06/22 23:25