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This service is available as best effort for testing. Be aware when trying this service in your tenancy.


EUMETCast Terrestrial over AMT can serve any user hosted on the EUMETSAT side of the EWC, regardless of native multicast connectivity. The encapsulated data can travel via GEANT network or the commercial internet.

Pre-requisite

Users need to be registered to EO Portal and have the following credentials in order to provision the service in their tenancies:

parametervalue or where to take it
usernamefrom EO portal
userkeyfrom EO portal

During the test phase, credentials have to be whitelisted at EUMETSAT. In order to do that, please contact EWC support.  

Create security group

Once you enter your tenancy:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Network

2. Go to Security Group tab and click the add button:


3. Assign eumetcast-ssh name to the security group and hit save:


4. Click on the new security group to access it


5. Click on the 'Add rule' button to create a new rule


6. Add the following rule and hit save

Rule nameDirectionRule TypeProtocolPort RangeSource TypeSourceDestination Type
2268-udpingressCustom RuleUDP2268Network0.0.0.0/0Instance
22-ssh-tcpingressCustom RuleTCP22Network0.0.0.0/0Instance

Now you are ready to provision the client!

Provision the client VM

  1. Go to Provisioning → Instances and click 'Add' button


2. Go to network category and select 'EUMETCAST TERRESTRIAL ON AMT':

3. Select name for your VM: eumetcast-client

4. Use the following specifications for the provisioning of the client:

CPU

8 cores 

RAM

64 GB

OS

Ubuntu v 18.04

Storage

1.2TB

EWC Plan

hm.xlarge

5. Save and create the VM

Once the service is provisioned, the user will start to receive their subscribed data on their VM (stored by default in /root/data/eumetcast/ but can be changed in the /etc/cast-client-channels_ter-1.ini file).

A crontab is automatically activated in order to prevent the build-up of data on the machine

All data is deleted 5 mins after retrieval by default and this can be changed by the user. (See section below)

How to modify the time to live of the data

sudo crontab -e

You have to setup both crontabs to the same time!

How to have real time logging

The entries to the log file for the tellicast client (/var/log/tellicast-client/recv_ter-1.log) is by default buffered.

In order to get real-time log events:

  1. ssh into the VM

2. Alter the file /etc/cast_client_ter-1.ini, removing the “>>” in front of the log file path:

log_file=/var/log/tellicast-client/recv_ter-1.log

3. After altering the file, you have to restart the service running the following command:

sudo systemctl restart tellicast-client
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