About vars-wf.wf.mbari.org

VARS-WF is the computer on the R/V Western Flyer used for running VARS

VARS is launched via Java Web Start on VARS-WF. Each application has a correspoding desktop shortcut and start menu item; they should appear as reqular applications to the users and no network connection is needed to launch them. The location of the web start applications are C:\Program Files\VARS\webstart. The applications here can be updated by following the build instructions for the 'vars-mbari' module on moonjelly, then executing the modules build file with 'ant deploy.jnlp.wf'

Timecode source

VARS on the flyer gets timecode and time via UDP from navproc.wf.mbari.org. Beta timecode can be fetched on port 9000. HD timecode is on port 9001.

NTP

From [~sheldon]:

vars-wf is configured to synchronize with the following:

Western Flyer: time-wf1 (134.89.20.17), time-wf2 (Unused), time-wf3 (134.89.21.5), time-wf4 (134.89.21.6)

ntp.conf

server time-wf1
server time-wf2
server time-wf3
server time-wf4