purgeAllGrids User's Guide

January 6, 2012


The purgeAllGrids program is part of the GFESuite software.  It will remove all grids from all weather elements for the specfied database.  The grids must not be locked or the purgeAllGrids program will fail.  This program must be used with CAUTION, since it will destroy existing grids with no possibility of recovery.

Running the program

Command Line Switches

The command line syntax is:

purgeAllGrids -h hostname -p rpcPortNumber

Command Switch Optional or Mandatory? Description
-h Mandatory (see Note) Host name upon which EDEX is running
-p Mandatory (see Note) RPC port upon which EDEX is running
-d
Mandatory
Database identifier, from which to purge all grids.
Note: The -h and -p switches are predefined when running in an installed GFESuite environment. They are defined to the values specified when installing the software.  If you wish to connect to a different EDEX, then the switches will need to be specified.


Sample Input

purgeAllGrids -d BOU_GRID__Restore_00000000_0000




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