[EHP-software] EIDS discontinuation notice

[Fee, Jeremy]

Hello,

The EHP is migrating clients away from EIDS, with a planned shut-off date
of October 31, 2013.  Existing users have several options to continue
receiving earthquake information in near-realtime:


- Realtime Feeds & Notifications

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/


- PDL, the replacement for EIDS and QDM

http://ehppdl1.cr.usgs.gov/userguide/


- QuakeWatch servers, fed by PDL

These are essentially EIDS servers, but only provide access to a subset of
the information available via PDL including earthquake locations.

The client configuration files will need to be changed to have entries like
these:

      # host address of server:
    serverHostAddress = "quakewatch1.cisn.org"
      # port number of server:
    serverPortNumber = 39977
      # true to enable fail-over reconnect to alternate servers:
    altServersEnabledFlag = true
      # list of alternate servers for fail-over reconnect:
    alternateServersList = "quakewatch2.cisn.org:39977,qu**
akewatch3.cisn.org:39977 <http://quakewatch3.cisn.org:39977/>"
      # file holding server-login information:
    loginInfoFileName = "conf/LoginInfoFile.txt"

     An authorized login is required to connect to the QuakeWatch servers;
logins can be requested here:
http://www.cisn.org/software/**login<http://www.cisn.org/software/login>


     A login-information file ("conf/LoginInfoFile.txt") containing the
username and password will need to be created, as documented here:
http://www.isti2.com/QWIDS/**current_dist/QWCubeOutClient/**
doc/QWConnParams.html#**loginInfoFile<http://www.isti2.com/QWIDS/current_dist/QWCubeOutClient/doc/QWConnParams.html#loginInfoFile>



If you have any questions about this discontinuation, please contact Lynda
Lastowka <llastowka at usgs.gov> .


Thanks,

Jeremy Fee
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