Directory structure, Installation directory, Observations directory – Vaisala Observation Display User Manual

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Chapter 5 _______________________________________________________ Administrator's Guide

Directory Structure

Installation Directory

By default, the application is installed in
C:\Program files\Vaisala\Observation Display. The installation directory
cannot be changed after the setup.

Under the installation directory, there are some subdirectories which may
be useful to the administrator.

Table 3

Installation Directory

Subdirectory Description

of

Contents

\TimeSeries

This directory contains original data received
from the weather station. Graphs and text
boxes in the real-time display use data from
these files.

\EventLog

Monthly event log files.

\Diag

Diagnostic event log files.

\Transfer

Directory of files waiting for transfer via
FTP/SFTP.

\Conf

Observation Display configuration file.

Observations Directory

The application can save observation data in various formats to be used
by external applications. By default, these optional output files are
generated under directory C:\Observations.

Table 4

Observations Directory

Subdirectory Description

of

Contents

\History
\History\Station
\History\Station\Year
\History\Station\Year\Month

History subdirectory has subdirectories
named by station name and year and month
of observation. Each monthly subdirectory
contains daily data files. Daily data files
contain all observations saved in table
format. The first row contains variable
names, and the first column contains the
time stamp of the observation.

\Latest

This directory contains files with only latest
data from the AWS.

\LogGroups

This directory contains copies of log group
files.

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